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Maybe these things molded off of technology, but Cage is basically one that inspired a lot of people to actually explore new technology without fear of being 'improper'. So, He essentially allowed people to explore something new while it was just out, and gave an academic legitimacy to it. |
Avant-garde means 'in front of the garde'. It means, that you show the way to which the rest of the people will follow. So dankrsta, saying: What Cage was doing will always be avant-garde whether you compare it to what was happening before him or after him is kinda oxymoronic (I don't know the less pretentious term... English is not my first language...). If he is always considered in front, it's because no one has followed him, and therefore he wasn't in front to begin with, but off to his own side... Being avant-garde means that you transform your own tradition, point out the way of the future. And yes, John Cage is probably one of the best examples of a classical avantgardist - perhaps only Schoenberg compares - but he is still a classical avantgardist. Moving him away from classical is senseless, and betrays a misunderstanding of what the term even means. IMHO.
And Skaligojurah, I mentioned Battles, because Battles is also in the avant-garde forum. To be honest, it's the fact that there even is an avant-garde / experimental subsection that is a bit ridiculous, because there is always experiments and people in front of others in each and every subgenre. I think The-Dream experiments a lot, but I wouldn't move him away from the R'n'B-subsection. I see the point of having stuff like the album club - actually I think that is a great idea - but removing stuff from their proper context and into this silly place is... silly. BTW: You can't speak of avant-garde without speaking about politics. Judging whether stuff is avant solely on their musical contents is truly betraying the spirit of avant. IMHO. Now, about Kraut. I think most of it would have surfaced without him. A lot of it was a response to a historical situation in Germany, which also made an explosion in the art of cinema. And, you know, explosions in the literal sense, with terorist groups running around. A lot of it was trying to create new ways of doing things, as a response to a world which a lot of people thought of as morally bankrupts - the Germany of their parents generation, who had never really satisfyingly settled the score with the horific deeds of the past. So the music would probably have been quite different without Cage and Stockhousen, and James Brown, and Reich, etc, etc - but I think something or other would have happened. But Cage is really, really important. If you read French Philosophy from the sixties and seventies, they too quote Cage all the time. He was an avant-garde genius. But in the realm of the clasical. |
Does it really matter that much what forum it's in? It's the same thread regardless.
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I intend on doing a performance of 4'33" with a ****load of energy at my next performance.
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I did a cover but accidentally fell asleep during and the audience couldn't handle it
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I'm a serious composer, and John Cages approach is monumentally important to me and others. 1) his words to the effect, " I want the music to come from the sound itself, so I'm just a listener too." That's very prescient. JS Bach, his music is so much from the craftsmanship laws of counterpoint and tonality, that it seems to originate closer to the sound itself, than the "artist'. I've always been intrigued by that connection. You could say that with atonality and 12 tone, that classical music got even farther away from the raw sound source, since it on longer used scales and chords which, in their harmonic series simplicity, seem closer to the raw sound.. 1b) acoustics and hearing are described similarly. There is a vibration, the source of the sound, which then travels through some medium, usually air, as a pressure vs. time wave (it's still not music); the ear then transducer the mechanical energy to sound waves, where an elastic basilar membrane will then register frequency. The brain then processes the sound further. ....2) Cage also made a great quote about hugely relevant to computer music. I need to look it up, but it was to the effect that, whereas in earlier times, musical ideas, and the tools and resources of composition, were much rarer, whereas now, in computer aided composition, there is so much generated, that there is waste. it's like 'data' where you have to pick out the results.
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http://d24jnm9llkb1ub.cloudfront.net...-cover-225.jpg The Ten Thousand Things Just listened to this one. Deals with Schoenberg, eastern philosophical concepts, the absurdities of time and space (nothing being filled with nothingness and going nowhere) - spokenword that works really well - it’s wild to hear him talk about Schoenberg in a musical setting. All of this is stuff you can really meditate on. Quote:
John Cage: The ten thousand things -- James Pritchett |
This is a good listen for those inclined
John Cage / Joëlle Léandre – The Wonderful Widow Of Eighteen Springs http://www.music-bazaar.com/album-im...ings-cover.jpg |
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