"I am trying to be unfamiliar with what I am doing."
John Cage
Spoken like a true artist. When process and deliberation become too familiar in an artistic endeavor, the risk of producing stale and inaffective work presents itself. I believe that familiarity is a good quality in a final product even when that familiarity is inexplicable; it provides the ability to connect. But to get there, the stranger the better.
John Cage (1912-1992) was an American composer. He is also well renowned for his musical theory studies and experiments. As an artist Cage is lauded as one of the most important composers of the 20th century and considered a leader of the avant garde in music. He was heavily influenced by his studies of Indian philosophy and Zen Buddhism in the late 1940's and began applying it to compositions in the early 1950's. He was especially interested in chance-controlled music.
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