John Cage performing Water Walk

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[real saxophonist]

John Cage performing Water Walk:

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[real saxophonist]

In college I did a short paper titled 'Stockhausen. Cage.'

Just because I was into the 'outside' stuff at that time. This was before YouTube. I just now discovered this video. Enjoy.

[MeshugeMikey]

Frank Zappa Playing a Bicycle..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9P2V0_p6vE

[real saxophonist]

That has been one of my favourites for years.

[MeshugeMikey]

I remember seeing it in a bit higher resolution...but this was the only one available on youtube apparently

[cripplecreek]

Chain Saw music.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A52p9jc-gOo

[Fungi]

John cage was a also a mycologist. He wrote a book of mushroom paintings that is quite valuable.

[knarf]

I must be weird ... I liked it.

[dware]

There’s a fungus among us... =D Looking forward to my shitake (sp?) log “growing” next season!

[NewHampshireDuo]

I loved his books, especially Silence. And the works for prepared piano.

[real saxophonist]

You should have heard some of my solos at the time. Alternate fingerings, biting the reed, cramming bizarre time signatures into 4/4...

[ansel12]

The set up was interesting, but the execution was painful to watch and to hear.

[spankalib]

The equivalent of non-representational art, and its bastard stepchild moral equivalence.
You guys like this?
How outside the box you are! How enlightened!

This is Rousseauian crap.

[ifinnegan]

Elephant is no Edgar Varese.

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I like how it showed how union thuggery messes things up.

[driftless2]

Thank you...my feelings as well. Cage was considered a genius by all the avant-garde types of the twentieth century who thought his uh "music" meant something significant. He's actually more like a rap "artist" of the intellectuals. A lot of noise with no meaning.

And of course Cage's most famous work is probably "4'33" where a pianist and maybe some other musician enter a room where they don't play their instruments for 4 minutes and 33 seconds. The musicians and their hoodwinked audience really think they're in on something. Deluded fools. All sound and fury signifying nothing.

Cage's legacy essentially means nothing. He was the biggest musical hoaxer of the twentieth century.

[knarf]

I can still dig it

[BigEdLB]

4:33 performed by William Marx

[real saxophonist]

I got in a little trouble in college when some worthless hack piano player came to town. One of these jump up and fistpump after every tune kinda guys. We were required to attend.

Well, we were asked for requests. I requested 4'33".

The powers that be didn't like that.

[TheCipher]

I like the part where he mentions that he couldn’t perform it as written ( with 5 radios turned on ). The reason was that there was a dispute between 2 unions of which one had the jurisdiction of plugging the radios in.

[left that other site]

Fairie Aire and Death Waltz

My personal favorite.

ML/LTOS

[Billthedrill]

I will confess to cheating by slurring the 512th-notes. Sorry.