John Cage and Lou Harrison's "Double Music"

Evening Music | May 6, 2010
Cage and Harrison used fairly traditional percussion instruments for this work, with the exception of brakedrums (an "instrument" that both composers were especially fond of). Using a predetermined number of measures and a mathematical "road map" as their guide, Harrison and Cage wrote their parts independently, with Cage writing the parts for players 1 and 3, and Harrison writing the parts for players 2 and 4.

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