John Cage - Williams Mix

[jailbreakir]

man whenever i watch these videos, i see these long comments, instead of stuff like "john cage roolz!" interesting observation i think

[mattlove1]

Crimony. John Cage fans are the most mirthless, dogmatic people ever. How did it come to this? Google "The Stupidest Music Lawsuit Ever – Infringing on Cage's 4'33" for sum fun. I say phazedrage, keep enjoying Cage any way you see fit, and keep on making vids and keep rockin

[charvinn]

O_O

[MrDarkbloom]

Yes, the video is pointless, actually. The sounds are already 'visual' enough.

[MichaelHansenFUN]

i want to play this backwards, speed it up, slow it down...

[swazbuzzler]

I agree about the video, it's very distracting and antithetical to the composition. I find after about 1 minute, I stop playing the "recognition game" (except for "ribbit"- ha, I love it!) Oddly, I find this to be one of the pieces of early electronic music that improves with repeat listenings. I wouldn't say the same thing about the early Schaeffer pieces, or a few of this piece's other contemporaries.

[lilkrissy123]

I'm not sure the use of images linked so closely with the sounds presented is appropriate. This is a piece in which you should really employ reduced listening in which you don't associate the sound with the source but rather you simply listen to the relationships the sounds have with one another and by putting these images with it you're re-associating the sound with the source so essential it takes the music out of the sound

[DerangedRanger1]

nice video to accompany this :) thanks for making the post.

[iDouglas91]

This is heavy stuff...

[jessicaisaliar]

for everyone asking the question 'how is this music?', this is exactly what John Cage and musique concrete composers were trying to explain. It is a philosophical debate of what constitutes music. Is music only music if there is context to the sounds we hear? I'm studying musique concrete at the moment, and I have to create a piece in the style, and believe me, this style is not as random as it seems, and requires a lot of skill. It is absolutely music when you have learnt to appreciate it.

[lilkrissy123]

@jessicaisaliar John Cage isn't really Musique Concrete, that's really pretty much just the guys who worked at Pierre Chaeffer's studio in Paris (which I cant remember the name of at the moment). While this piece definitely is similar it's better to think of Cage as being independent since his methodology in creating the music is so different

[rickrisi]

nice video...

Cage the visionary...

[TavinFan]

@armegeddon11 "Why would anyone listen to this?"

For a grade.

[Gacktlover1]

@TavinFan Lmao. So true.

[leakeg]

@armegeddon11 because "tripping balls" is fucking grand?

[Kirke182]

This is one of the early musique concrete pieces done with tape. We don't know if the "frogs" here are really frogs. Every sound is just long enough to be heard and so the source is often disguised and often sounds like something else entirely.

[noelh98]

lol this guy collected mushrooms... makes perfect sense

[tinypapercube]

Hahaha, there are an awful lot of frogs in it. He must have thrown a particularly large number for that...

[xsilxeightyx]

how is this music or anything!? i dont understand you people

[homsie33]

Because if it weren't for this music, you wouldn't be listening to the Black Eyed Pea's, or whatever talentless, noise polluting "music" you enjoy listening to.

[DerangedRanger1]

@homsie33 Let's not be elitist. I love Cage, but I accept that some people might like the Black Eyed Peas as well - it might even be important to them. I am sure I like a lot of music that you would subjectively judge as "noise polluting," just as many before you judged Cage's music as such. What if he listened to them?

[amfrank1]

@xsilxeightyx This is John Cage, a firm believer that music is everywhere in life, perpetually existent no matter where you look for it. This was incredibly breakthrough at the time, a pioneer in experimental music

[exceldriver]

i have to listen to this in a stupid music class..... what the fuck is wrong with these people?

[skipin8]

love this ,it calm me dawn so much !

[creebefu]

Awesome Video!

[patsuspect4]

delightful!

[gibdoguy]

Pause at 4:55. Lol!

[creebefu]

Lol, there's 4 pics during that second. Which one?

[unriselyrical]

is this the original song? in its entirety?

[TEMPmichaelhansen]

you ought to hear this in STEREO