Shh! We’re improvising! The Lepers of Melancholy, Houston TX (photo by Jonathan Jindra) While reading Conversing With Cage at a bus stop today, I stumbled across this funny yet in the end profound exchange (circa 1980) between John Cage and John Robert with Silvey Panet Raymond: How do you consider new popular music – punk, New Wave? What is the New Wave? I don’t really know what it is. If you could point it out to me, I might have some reaction. It’s very simple, three – , four-chord stuff, aggressive, fast. There’s a good deal of dancing on the