Pedro writes:
>1. Ben Vautier said that John Cage was critical to the development of Fluxus.
>
>2. Dick Higgins was of the opinion that Ben exaggerated this influence too
>much.
I assume Higgins wanted to stress that the people attending the class had their own
ideas and were not Cage-followers or Cage-wanna-bes.
I think the most important thing Cage contributed to the class (and to me studying his
work through books and recordings) was the notion (and encouragement) that people
could develop their own personal ideas, methods, theories and practices, and not have
to decide to follow limited choices ("Stravinsky or Schoenberg" as Cage has written
about his early studies).
-Josh Ronsen
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