a l e a t o r i c : Composition based on chance, usually, but sometimes also random accident
and/or highly improvisational execution. Hans Arp's so-called Collage Arranged According to the Laws of Chance is an early example. |
The composer John Cage is particularly noted for this technique, and traces of it can be found in the work of numerous artists within his circle (e.g., Robert Rauschenberg, Naim June Paik, Jim Dine, etc.).
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january 24, 1999. stayed up late reading b-boy blues by james earl hardy, which is not the greatest book but is a fun escape read, the kind that'd be nice to take to a gay beach and lie around in a cute pair of swim trunks reading. |
jesse's party last nighti think about how he and i especially are the only ones we know that are like us. we get too wrapped up in ourselves and how different
we areselfish instead of ... i don't know, making something beautiful out of a bird's beak - |
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but we can't stop talking. curtained restaurants with pots of steaming tea and flecks of flowers floating in themstreets with tricks and papers spinning around on the sidewalkworkplaces, corporate mood lightingloud rooms of house, salsa, merengue, hip-hop, soul, with their own sort of businesslike-ness: glance, glance, glance, move on, just like a resume.
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we don't know what to do with these phone numbers that we're amassing. call, return call, call twice when, lost the number, give the wrong number. i won't recognize you and missed when you came.
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