John Cage - Branches - Simone Mancuso 1_2 Kennedy Center Washington DC

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The music contains solely of performance instructions. If Branches is performed as a solo, it begins with a performance of Child of Tree.
The instruments used are amplified pods, cacti and other plant materials such as pod rattles from a poinciana tree, an 'instrument' Cage specifically mentions in the score. The choice of the other instruments is made by the performers, using I-Ching chance operations.
The cacti are played by plucking its needles with toothpicks, the sounds being amplified by cartridge-like attachments, constructed by John Fullemann.
Branches is basically a series of variations of Child of Tree, strung together on a string of silence.

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