words as soundtrack
from john cage’s indeterminacy
an interpretation from kostelanetz, in his 1992 introduction:
“One theme is that indeterminacy differs from improvisation, because indeterminacy incorporates imaginative constraints. The idea of the poetry-jazz duets was that speaker and musicians would respond to one another, each spontaneously trying to reenforce the other, customarily in habitual ways. The principle of indeterminacy allows each other, each with scores designed to minimize habit. If a reader is required to speak only fifteen words in sixty seconds, he or she cannot resort to pet ways of phrasing.”