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  • thank you

  • Cool

  • this is so peaceful :)

    Thank you

  • is there anyway to find or aquire this arrangement. I'd love to perform it for my senior recital next year!!!!!

  • @SRuckMusic I just played right from the piano score and made my instrument choices based on what I thought sounded the best. Good luck!

  • This is such a god idea to play it with sounds like Cage must have had in head from Bali !

  • beautiful

  • This was really quite beautiful. Thank you. I agree that the vibraphone brings the warmth in the piece to the forefront.

  • Beautiful! I just heard the NME do a concert on this very stage. Sorry I missed this, though—it was before my time.

  • I love this so much. I think this arrangement is a lot more interesting than the original. Switching between the two timbres is purely magical. I want to write a duet for marimba and vibes now. Also you have nice technique. Everything just seems to flow.

  • I love this so much. I think this arrangement is a lot more interesting than the original. Switching between the two timbres is purely magical. I want to write a duet for marimba and vibes now. Also you have nice technique. Everything just seems to flow.

  • This is really awesome. Love the mix between marimba and vibe.

  • so, this is what they call "art"? then i am happy that i am a stupid metalhead with no sense for art at all...

  • @cylmareall There is no They, and there is no Art.

  • Excellent. I prefer these "little" pieces from this early period to his later music, though I do like some of the wilder things. There's something fine and perfect in the balance of these compositions, and this performance gets right to the heart of the matter. Bravo!

  • this would be one of the most beautiful things I have heard till date....

  • I saw that preformed by Cage live on piano, your version Cage would love

  • Wow.... and I mean WOW!!! This is truly outstanding man!! The way you move, the music is just flowing out of you. True expression!! Bravo!!!

  • Que suavidade.

  • So this is what he does when he isn't making movies or punching people in the nuts...

  • Great job! I like this piece. So much better than that pretentious 433 garbage.

  • @Ajapam34 Pretentious? It just uses an unusual instrument--it's the first piece written for audience.

  • Beautiful performance and love the choice of instrument. Thank you for posting.

  • wonderful choice of instrumentation + wonderful performance. warmest congratulations.

  • great job . very nice interpretation! I would realy like to hear the original recording. Youtube Qualitiy is not the best one.

  • @goldencricket lol. No, but I did analyze 4'33".

  • I dreamed that i`m a fish fishing people.

  • Beautifullll!!

  • 41 prsns are not gay

  • Wow, I have to say this was a incredible performance! Not only musically but physically. Your movements are quite graceful, reminiscent of ballet. I can SEE how hard or softly you hit the notes. I am quite amazed by the subtlety and precision of your performance. This makes me want to learn this instrument............ in other words, It's purdy.

  • Amazing, amazing work.

  • very cool

    

  • Just wrote a ten page paper about Cage. Easiest paper I've ever written!

  • @ahostutler1 Was it blank?

  • 4'33 is my bros favorite composition

  • beautiful piece....beautiful performance!

    -keith

  • absolutley fantastic! your interpretation and performance couldn't have been better, it captured the essence of the original but developed the dream idea really well

  • Love this, thanks! John Cage is an inspiration, both with music and philosophy

  • Jhon Cage would love to hear that.

  • DUDE!! this is beautiful....you've inspired me to try the same thing. I have a recital coming up in the fall. Well done if I perform it half as well as you I tihnk it'll be a success.

  • A great interpretation of a fantastic piece

  • I was very impressed by the interpretation and realization of this work. Well done, indeed!

  • it reminds me of the ending of 'moon child' by king crimson

  • where did you get the music for this. and could you possibly email it to me?

  • wonderfull performance. The resonance of this instruments make sense with the dreams idea. Thanks for share.

  • Thanks for putting this up. I've been watching this over and over again. Especially a few months ago, I was very tense over work and it helped me transcend a lot of negative feelings going on in my life. Your arrangement is brilliant with the different instruments. Is that marimba and vibraphones? Thanks!

  • hit mute and turns to the song 3'44"

  • @gifbc You mean 4'33" I assume. lolololololol.

  • Jeez that guys tiny!!

  • wonderful performance man ..

  • I am using you video in my college project! Great job! I love it!

  • @19blonde91 Very cool!  I'd love to see the final product!

  • I like how you use the vibe to sustain notes while you play the melody on marimba. Nice touch and great arrangement!

  • Incredible, thank you so much.

  • hey cool!!

  • excellent

  • as the piece began a swan floated by on the stream outside my window. I was captured in a bubble of beauty created by the piece on my headphones and the beauty of the world I felt at that moment so lucky to inhabit.

    Thank you.

  • this is what I want to do in my life!

  • this is so beautiful..

    my only downfall is i wish it had been recorded with better audio so i could have it on my ipod..

    stll.. sooo beautiful

  • great performance. awesome skills. i don't like xylophone thoughhhhh

  • I love this performance - great job

  • great! i don't understand to much about that, but searching musical pieces for a performance i find this. awsome. i think this is exelent for mi performance... it's in a forest... three widows and the graves... and a child playing. I love pina baush.

  • This performance gives me a fresh look into the depths of this piece.  Many thanks.

  • I actually do not care to listen to John Cage. I do enjoy his creativity and sometimes draw inspiration from it. I was unaware of the existence of this piece, so thank you for posting this. Love the program note here, it does make me feel like I am listening to Satie.

    Beautiful, beautiful performance :)

  • I'm interested in john cage's music, but since he was a composer I can't jsut listen to one of his albums... What are some good pieces of his music?

  • I like 4.33 much more.

  • @filipooosveritos haha smartass! lol.

  • Thanks I need this for my school project. CAGE ROCKS!

  • What a wonderful performance, what a wonderful sound! I truly love this. And I really, really think it is much better than the piano performances I know of. Well done!

  • I look at you as a teacher. I'm certainly learning from your video's. Don't stop posting :)

  • I am a percussionist myself in my high school's band and happened across this video during research for a project involving percussion from the 20s-40s. Cage is thus far my favourite composer of the period, and this performance of Dream makes me want to learn to play it myself.

    This is an absolutely fantastic adaption of the song for marimba/vibes. Brilliant work on your part, and I definitely think Cage would have approved of your innovative and unconventional use of the music he wrote.

  • beautiful performance..really sucks you in

  • beautiful...absolutely stunning.

  • Fantástico! congratulations, amazing job.

  • Beautiful,hermoso

  • This is some good shit.

  • for the complete truth: That shiny silver thing at the left side is a Vibraphone, and the Wooden ting at the right side is a Marimba. =D

    This sounds so great :).

  • Wow those low chords on the xylophone are marvelous! I want one!

  • That's a marimba, mate. :)

  • Whatever it is I still want one! I But thanks for correcting me!

  • dude lets jam hah

  • Very nicely done. I like this piece a lot...it reminds me a little of Brian Eno's "Music For Airports," one of my all-time favorite recordings.

  • This was written by a genius, and you did it great justice. Phenomenal job!

  • wow wow wow, this took my breath away.

  • I have to say, this is my second favorite Cage piece, behind "4'33"

  • good stuff

  • excellent

  • this is beautiful, I love vibes and the marimba.

  • @anniemal011 They really work great together for this piece.

  • amazing resonance

  • Nice man, I love john cage but that man was crazy lol

  • Bello

  • The instrumentation here was a great choice. The vibraphone's resonance works really well for the melody. Thanks for posting

  • Beautiful, amazing. Thanks for sharing this! Great performance!

  • Very nice job. :)

  • good job

  • What a wonderful performance. Your playing evokes the humane warmth of Cage's spirit that I think most people miss when they listen to his more "difficult" pieces. Congratulations! Perhaps you should just tell people that you chose the instruments that you did by throwing the I-Ching and that Cage would have most certainly approved.

  • Thanks so much for your comment. I'm glad you enjoyed it!

  • @datimpster I love this piece. Especially the six-four chord. So sad sounding. Thanks for expressing his music so well

  • @tinypapercube lol.. brill comment. hahaha.

  • Respect! Marimba is a hard instrument. My old drumteacher was a conservatory graduate in marimba and he used to amaze me as well with it.

  • this is a wonderful interpretation Dr. Stolarik. There is a xylophone of this size in my local music shop and i must annoy the staff by playing it badly but its such a wonderful noise. Perhaps the most underrated of all musical instruments. Is it a xylophone or marimba and what is the difference? anyway, simply lovely.

  • I don't suppose you have the score?

  • Nice one! Did you play from the piano-score? Or an arrangement? grtz

  • Exactly. I played right from the piano score and made decisions between vibes and marimba based on what I thought was musically appropriate. Thanks for watching!

  • amazing

  • @datimpster Umm..so you runied the song by messing whith John Cage's stuff you thought wouldn't be "musically(whatever that is)" appropriate. Theres no such thing as being musically appropriate, Anti-Musik is art too.

  • @MagnitudePerson i think that cage would've been fine with it

  • love it :)

    I play the marimba's and hope one day to be half as good as this lol.

  • You perform this in a wonderful way. It's like you tell us a very beatitful story.

  • Thanks you so much, and thank you for watching!

  • this is wonderful...

  • Lovely done!

  • marimba: the ultimate instrument...in my opinion at least

  • super beautiful

  • ethereal

  • Very expressive. I enjoy your playing. It is nice to hear the marimba and vibes speak!

  • really beautiful

  • Your a great percussionist

  • Yeah...This is greatness in so many languages...

  • Thanks to the human heart by which we live,

    Thanks to its tenderness, its joys, and fears,

  • This has to be the most intelligent comment I've seen around here for a long time =). And I mean that with absolute honesty...

  • woops !! copied it !! wordsworth

    Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood.

    were you being sarcastic :)

  • Lovely and ironically true as well :D

  • @binboston gay

  • so much better on the vibes imho

  • the way the vid's slightly out of sync makes it all the more sort of drifty and dream-like :)

  • The vibraphone sounds so awesome with the fan off.

  • Could someone please tell me the name of the silver instrument, I have forgotten.

  • the silver instrument is a vibraphone, which is also sometimes referred to as a vibraharp

  • check out Dave Samuel on Vibes and Xylo

  • LOVELY

  • Wow this is incredible. Is it ur own arrangement??

  • No. John Cage.

  • I would love to play this. Did you perform this straight from the piano part with your own adaptations?

  • I played directly from the piano score and simply made instrument choice decisions based on what I thought sounded the best! Thanks for watching.

  • Thanks!

  • SO GOOD. I love this. I wish i could afford those. I'd love to learn how to play.

    This is brilliant man. The feel is perfect. I wish the sound quality was better.

  • you know, this is one of those pieces that those people who claim Cage couldn`t write music never want to talk about, like In a Landscape or Litany for the Whale. and your interpretation is also great, fits both the original piece and a ballet performance, didn`t see the one that the piece was based on, but the flow of the music reminds me of gesturing bodies. take care.

  • wtf is that suppose to mean? idiot.

  • this comment is hilarious.

  • Expert performance on beautiful instruments = virtuoso.

  • Interesting. However, did John Cage not claim that he does not want "music" to remind his viewer's of anything? Rather that music is a bunch of noise. So then if he based this on a ballet, I suppose this would be one of his works in progress. Still a great composition of noise!

  • Cage was cool

  • Amazing sounds anad performance!

    Thanks!

  • I think Satie got it, and created wonderful stories in time. The fauvist movement in music along with some of Satie's rhetoric created many marvelous moments, and even a world in which to experience these moments. If you ever heard a Balinese orchestra, they sound the best outdoors. I believe this too would also sound best outdoors, without the room acoustics. Now, what would Tom Waits say I I asked him...."What is a song?"

  • I can feel the flow of the ballet he based this on...

  • Great Job

  • John cage <3

  • esta es una de las mas bellas interpretacion que he oído del piano, con mucha sollidez, y rescatando la esencia de una obra como "dream". realmente muy placentero!

  • talk about minimalism! :)

  • Very good, I like the interpretation and the different instruments. The only thing that seems iffy for me is that when you use 2 instruments there's too much moving around.

    By the way I saw somebody play another Cage piece similar to this (in a landscape I think) on the marimba and it sounded great. His name was Sorensen.

  • Those of you that don't even consider this music should listen to the notes he's playing and the ambiance created by them and stop anticipating where you think it should go

  • I have nothing to say and I am saying it--J Cage.

  • Listening to youtube audio is about as fulfilling as giving a door nob head.

  • Well i think only you can relate to that! Why were you felatting a door knob (not nob)?....

    Anyway... i rather liked this video.... it's not often i get to see music like this played live round my way. So youtube (agreeing on the bad youtube audio part) shall have to do in the mean time!

  • actually youtube audio can be really great...but, this is of course audio from the video camera, and also picking up the room sounds...

  • cage would want the room sounds... that tricky son of a bitch

  • hmm, accually, I like this :p

  • John Cage would have loved that when people type 4:33 it takes them to a random point in the composition.

  • fascinating... thank you...

  • i love the sound of the vibraphon, it makes the music sound more like fitting to the title... dream... one word that tells it all...

  • this is such a good program you put on here! nice selections!

  • Look up definitions for music and you will find ones that say something along the lines of "communication through sound," Something someone is trying to make you feel or think. If he wants to take you on a journey, as you have said maddguizz74. Then this IS music.

  • he wants to take you on a journey but he is not doing it well. I could listen to a bird chirp or water fall and splash and still receive the same level of appeasement that i get from this song, I'm suggesting , as humans, our superiority in the control and portrayal of music . Mr.Cage's work isnt an adaquit medium for voyage of the senses.

  • ive studied john cage and his work for quite a bit now and admit that this is nice. this however is not music. you claim to have heard his lectures well then you surely would realise his idealisms when it comes to music. he wishes that people stop trying to control sounds and rather arrange certain ambiences, with no apparent structure to appease the ear thus taking one on a "journey". i however believe that this is a musicians job, to control sound and portray it as a piece.

  • Not music?  Maybe you should continue listening to his lectures then, whaddaya say?

  • well, i was under the impression that the 'avant-guardians' were the type of people who liked to create the ambience and free the music. It's music alright, and there are groups of people who follow that belief, and groups that follow your belief of what music is, sir. There is to be no argument as to whether it is music or not. The people who make it call it that, so it is music, otherwise we'd be speculating pointlessly.

  • there may not be an arguement to as to whether the WORD music captures this piece above as that word can be open for speculation a million times and still no answer would be found, im just saying that my experience of music is that of structured and developed pieces which evoke emotion from beginning to end. Cage's work is based on individual experience of sound. i could give you a sandwhich and call it a roll , it would be endlessly debatable.

  • You speak very well of experience, but not of feeling. Were this music accompanied or accompanying interpretive dance, as many songs of John Cage's have been, it would be easier to see the development in the music. This music IS structured; is there not a beginning and an end? There are others much like this, listen to In Smyrna by Edward Elgar, which is in the new trinity Guildhall grade 8 Piano exam book. This music does not appeal to everyone, but it is music nontheless.

  • I realise the structure. I was not saying that is literally just like a bird singing or water falling, but rather like sampling colloquial sounds such as these and portraying it in new environments , in fact i believe i have just described Cage's theory on music. That was excactly my point in the last comment though, it may be music to some but never by my definition or that of many other's. Palpable debate sir thank you.

  • What would be the point of having a very specific stipulative definition of music?