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Twenty Thousand Hertz

CHAPTER

Cage's Music of Changes

The Chinese Book of Changes, The Eaching, was a huge influence on Cage. You generate random numbers by flipping coins and the sections that come up tell you something about the decision you need to make. It's a bit like a tarot deck or a magic eight ball, just much, much, much more complex. And Cage got interested in this idea before he wrote 433.

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