Music Composed and Performed During Performance of Merce Cunningham and Dance Company 1973

This is John Cage’s musical score for Merce Cunningham’s dance company, made sometime in 1973. You know, it reminds me of Cy Twombly’s scribbles, but instead of a child’s crayon, it's Cage’s sharp pen, mapping out a whole other world! Imagine him hovering over this lined page, a kind of organized chaos, where notes jump and stutter across the staves. It’s like he’s thinking, how can sound be as free and surprising as a body in motion? The notes, some grouped, some solo, must have been a real challenge to play—a kind of controlled improv. I wonder if the musicians felt like they were dancing too, trying to keep up with Cage’s wild, beautiful mind. It’s a piece about the space between things, the unpredictable beauty of what happens when you let go.