John Cage cultivated the principle of indeterminacy in his music. He used a number of devices to ensure randomness and thus eliminate any element of personal taste on the part of the performer. These included unspecified instruments and numbers of performers, freedom of duration, inexact notation, and sequences of events determined by random means such as consultation with the Chinese Yijing (I Ching).
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