Untitled
1961
ink
From the collection of Museum of Modern Art
1961
ink
From the collection of Museum of Modern Art
You see a sheet of graph paper covered in tiny, careful ink marks—dots, dashes, and short lines. This isn’t a sketch for a drawing. It’s the second page of sheet music for *Music for Carillon No. 4*, a piece John Cage wrote for bells. The grid helped him map out which bell to strike and when. The marks look random, but each one follows a rule Cage set before he started. If you like how this blurs music and art, look up the technique called cross-hatching.
