Cage: Imaginary Landscapes Nos 1 to 5; Credo in Us – review

(Mode)Released as the first in a series of discs devoted to John Cage's works for percussion, the pieces here also include some of his earliest experiments in electro-acoustics. The first of the Imaginary Landscapes, from 1939, employs two variable speed turntables playing recordings of fixed and sliding frequencies, alongside a muted piano and a cymbal. Later pieces in the series are either for percussion ensemble alone (Nos 2 and 3), 12 radios (Imaginary Landscape No 4) or, as No 5 stipulates,...

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