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Title “John Cage: Indeterminacy,” Time, 65
Date 2 November 1959
Type press clipping
Location Getty Research Institute, David Tudor Papers, 980039, box 62, folder 15

A critic writing for Time translates unfamiliar experimentalism into terms that are familiar, by way of making references to midcentury domestic American culture. This review describes Indeterminacy with reference to the noises of an irritating dinner guest, a broken TV, and the unpredictability of a thunderstorm.

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“John Cage: Indeterminacy,” Time, 65, 2 November 1959. Getty Research Institute, David Tudor Papers, 980039, box 62, folder 15. In The Scores Project: Experimental Notation in Music, Art, Poetry, and Dance, 1950–1975, ed. Michael Gallope, Natilee Harren, and John Hicks. Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute, 2025. https://www.getty.edu/publications/scores/object-index/114/.