‘Cage and Satie’ (Musical Times, 114, December 1973, pp. 1227–9) (Michael Nyman Collected Writings) I rather think that influence doesn’t go A–B–C, that is to say, from [Satie] to someone younger than [Satie] to people still younger, but that rather we live in a field situation in which, by our actions, by what we do, […]