Not Wanting to Say Anything About John commemorates John Cage’s 100th birthday. This multidisciplinary work has been inspired in Cage’s creation Not Wanting to Say Anything About Marcel (1969), which is a tribute to Marcel Duchamp and considered to be his first visual art project. Cage’s piece comprises two lithographs and a group of eight objects that he called “Plexigrams”: silk screen printing on Plexiglas panels. Each item consists in eight panels covered with words in different typefaces and pictures. Counting them all, there are sixty-four panels, the number of hexagrams in the I Ching. Cage used chance operations to compose the Plexigrams.​

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Not Wanting to Say Anything About John is a piece for ensemble of 15 musicians, tape and video. For this work I collaborated with illustrator Ainhoa Sarabia. She draught 64 objects for which I assigned aural information. We randomly created 8 different series of 8 ‘audio-visual’ objects each. Once I had them, my goal as a composer was to combine them in a very rational way, in order to develop the ability to associate disconnected material. I did the music but also did the video. The goal was to construct a whole, by extrapolating the musical materials and drawings to the video.