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John Cage Sonatas & Interludes V for prepared quarter-tone marimba

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Uploaded by on Nov 1, 2008

Cage's famous prepared piano piece transcribed for prepared quarter-tone marimba, performed at Advent Lutheran Church (93rd and Broadway) in NYC

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  • how did you do this?

  • I prepared a piano at Umass (where I used to teach) and wrote down the resulting pitches and colors. I then tried to reproduce them as much as possible using a 5 octave marimba, a quarter-tone extension, put some small objects on the bars to reproduce the tones of the bolts and rubber on the piano strings, and added some other "pitched" instruments to complete the missing sounds.

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  • whoaaaa this must be WAY harder for marimba(s)! (Quite easy for original piano)

  • Great Job! Great acoustics!

  • I was blown away by the mere sound of this piece... I've never heard anything like this before. It sounds as if manipulating the marimba (to make the special sound effects/quarter tones) was quite a project. Great results, congratulations!

  • mmm interesante.

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