Indeterminacy 103

The question of leading tones came
up in the class in experimental
composition that I give at the New
School.

I said,
“You surely aren’t
talking about ascending half-steps in
diatonic music. Is
it not true that anything leads
to whatever follows?”

But the
situation is more complex,
for things also lead backwards
in time.


This also does not give a picture
that corresponds with reality.
For, it is said,
the Buddha’s enlightenment
penetrated in every direction to
every point in space and time.

- John Cage