John Cage Branches (1976)
The music contains solely of performance instructions. If Branches is performed as a solo, it begins with a performance of Child of Tree. The instruments used are amplified pods, cacti and other plant materials such as pod rattles from a poinciana tree, an instrument Cage specifically mentions in the score. The choice of the other instruments is made by the performers, using IChing chance operations. The cacti are played by plucking its needles with toothpicks, the sounds being amplified by cartridgelik
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