NumberNineDream |
10-26-2009 09:56 PM |
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Originally Posted by lucifer_sam
(Post 758871)
but that's the fundamental key to understanding sound as a medium and not a canvas...people place music and musicians upon this unreachable pedestal, like the romantic notions of artistry and musical genius that pervade popular sentiment.
what John Cage sought to prove was that music was tied to the earth as much as any other form of communication, and even in the absence of elements like rhythm, melody, cadence and timbre it is still as justifiably "musical" as anything else.
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Usually people that work with sound (not music) repeat this idea very often. I've read about that once, it's like when they say that ancient cultures believe that everything is made from energy (or is "frequency" in that matter), and that creation began from sound. (Usually they say, it's like in the Bible, when God said "Let there be light" ... It was with sound that creation was made).
I didn't continue that book than, tho I felt it was really interesting. Usually I just hear extracts from that book word by word, from my sound engineer teacher lol.
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