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Originally Posted by YorkeDaddy
That's a really cool track mate, thanks for the link as I'd never heard that before
So that's some new insight certainly, but it doesn't change the fact that so much of what some of his other music stands for is absolutely outrageous to me so that's really just two different philosophies at work there
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That's interesting, since I kind of have the opposite view. There are a few of his pieces that I'm not fond of but because of the point that they make I can still appreciate them. One of my favourite things about Cage is that none of his music is pointless, each and every piece is the personification of some element within Cage's philosophy of music. There's a downside to that though, since his most controversial pieces (4'33", Water Walk, ASLSP) are his most well known while his best pieces like his quartets, piano sonatas, electronic music, and percussion pieces are largely ignored.
Which pieces are outrageous to you?