In which I play some songs relating to the idea of chance. Leonard Cohen, Johannes Ockeghem, Townes Van Zandt, Yo La Tengo, John Berger reading Simone Weil, and more. Full tracklist available here.

Tracklist

1. Ma Ligne de Chance -Pierrot le Fou (1965)
2. Everybody Knows – Leonard Cohen
3. Mazl – Molly Picon and Edmund Zayenda
4. Das Lied von der unzulänglichkeit des menschlichen Strebens – Kurt Weill, Bertolt Brecht
5. Rambling Gambler – Alan Lomax
6. St. John the Gambler – Townes Van Zandt
7. What Chance Have I Got? – Yo La Tengo
8. Possibly Maybe – Björk
9. One computer generated variation of Mozart’s take on the Würfelspiel.
10. Missa Cuiusvis Toni, Mass in Any Mode (Kÿrie in the Phrygian mode, Gloria in the Lydian mode) – Johannes Ockeghem
11. Erratum Musical – Marcel Duchamp
12. Music for Marcel Duchamp – John Cage
13. John Berger reading from Gravity and Grace by Simone Weil
14. Maybe She – Arthur Russell
15. Maybe – The Ink Spots
16. Quizas, Quizas, Quizas – Trio Los Panchos