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Playing the Raisins. No two aleatory composers get their random results in quite the same way. Cage, who is regarded as particularly ingenious, determined the notes for his Music for Piano by following the pattern of the "imperfections in the paper on which the music was written." Germany's Karlheinz Stockhausen, who is perhaps the most influential of Europe's aleatory composers, instructs performers to play any portion of his music that their eyes first fall on. His Cycle, for one percussionist, has spirally bound pages to make it simpler for the performer to begin or end wherever...
...verification (the term now used for detection and inspection). On the larger question of what the experts call"G. & C" (general and complete disarmament), the U.S.'s Dean Rusk suggested an intriguing scheme designed to soften Russian fear of inspection "espionage." It was similar to the plan of random geo graphical samplings proposed by Harvard University's International Law Professor Louis B. Sohn. Under the "Sohn Zone" system, each country would be divided into a number of areas; once the nuclear nations had reported their total number of weapons in each area, an international disarmament organization would choose...
...megalopolis, juvenile delinquency, blight, population movement and traffic. The mayors of these vast places seem to spend their time either shaking hands with somebody for the photographers or complaining of their burdens. TIME, a city-made product itself, takes up the subject this week by selecting, but not at random, the mayors of five U.S. cities-New York, Chicago, Boston, Houston and Los Angeles. Its cover story verifies the existence of all the problems everyone complains about, but tries to bear in mind that many of the problems of the city are the price of its attraction to such numbers...
...program. Aeon was long: over a half-hour of posturing that looked more like a technique class than a dance, with each dancer exercising in his own private sphere, hardly seeing, not caring, what his partners were doing. Cunningham's technique of "choreography by chance" picked the wrong random combination of numbers this time and came up with a series of stiff, unrelated movements that took rather more muscle than grace...
...unnecessary to listen carefully to John Cage's accompaniment of electronic whines, buzzes, piercing, shrieking tones, and cacophonous static. The endless, disjunctive movements and music discouraged close attention: without looking, without listening, one knew that it would be more of same, more of same. Variety at random is just plain dull...