condition (disc/cover): EX / EX

With slipcase.

Cheap Imitation began as an act of devotion and became something entirely John Cage's own. Commissioned as a piano reduction of Erik Satie's Socrate - after the original arrangement fell through for copyright reasons - Cage instead applied chance operations drawn from the I Ching to transform Satie's melodic line while retaining its rhythmic structure: each pitch reselected by coin toss, the harmonic logic dissolved but the cadence preserved. The result is a work that is simultaneously an homage, a ghost, and a rigorous piece of indeterminate composition in its own right.