Cartridge Music by John Cage. Langham Research Centre.

Cartridge music was composed by John Cage in 1960 and is scored for amplified small sounds. A cartridge is a vintage phonograph pickup into which a gramophone needle is inserted for the playing of records. Instead of a needle, any object that will fit into the cartridge may be inserted eg. a coil of wire, a toothpick, a paperclip etc. In addition ’auxiliary sounds’ are made with the use of contact microphones. Langham Research Centre is Felix Carey, Iain Chambers, Philip Tagney and Robert Worby. They