April 7
0. Xenakis - Hiller. System music and process music. Hiller's attitude. Experimentation. Why is Xenakis important.
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Ideology and the Individual1. Ideology Rationalism in the Middle Ages - Aristotle's logic. The Scholastics, Thomas d'Aquinas. Saint Augustine. Musical metaphor (Shopenhauer).
2. Zen. What is it.
3. Cage and Chance Music. New York Zen. Authorship; the role of art/music. Chance operations; form is no form. Limits to the lack of form.
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