1.What do you think are the qualities of Edvard Varese considering as the Father Of Electronic_music?

He pioneered and created new sounds that bordered between music and noise.
The musical compositions of Varese are characterized by an emphasis on timbre and rhythm.
He invented the term “organized sound,” which means that certain timbres and rhythms can be
grouped together in order to capture a whole new definition of sound. 

2 What is Chance music?

Chance music refers to a style wherein the piece always sounds different at every performance
because of the random techniques of production, including the use of ring modulators or natural
elements that become a part of the music.

3 Explain how composers create chance music?

Most of the sounds emanate from the surroundings, both natural and man-made, such as
honking cars, rustling leaves, blowing wind, dripping water, or a ringing phone. As such, the
combination of external sounds cannot be duplicated as each happens by chance.

4.Identify the life of John Cage and his compositions

John Cage, in full John Milton Cage, Jr., (born September 5, 1912, Los Angeles, California,
U.S.—died August 12, 1992, New York, New York), American avant-garde composer whose
inventive compositions and unorthodox ideas profoundly influenced mid-20th-century music.

An example is John Cage’s Four Minutes and Thirty-Three Seconds (4’33") where the pianist
merely opens the piano lid and keeps silent for the duration of the piece. The audience hears a
variety of noises inside and outside the concert hall amidst the seeming silence.
A chart system was also used (along with nested proportions) for the large piano work Music of
Changes (1951), only here material would be selected from the charts by using the I Ching. All
of Cage's music since 1951 was composed using chance procedures, most commonly using
the I Ching. For example, works from Music for Piano were based on paper imperfections: the
imperfections themselves provided pitches, coin tosses and I Ching hexagram numbers were
used to determine the accidentals, clefs, and playing techniques.