Modern Classical Music: Guest Episode by Tom Milsom

[Molkette11]

"And anybody in the comments who says that it isn't music will personnally get me coming around of their house and punching them in the face." It isn't music. Now come visit me, skip the punching part, i'll make some tea and we're gonna have a lovely chat featuring your amazing brain, you fascinating human being.

[TaterGumfries]

You leave Tater's ma out of it.

[InTheOfficeTV]

Lol it was a simpilar time :P

[miekka968]

@timeladyandshazamm97 I find this interesting. I just googled synesthesia and I had no idea what to expect. It is a fascinating thing and I find it intriguing how you say you had trouble with learning to play piano whilst Hélène Grimauld and Franz Liszt both has synesthesia. I know that stuff like this varies from person to person but I didn't think it'd vary that much. Yeah, random input over.. Sorry Iif I've offended you, it wasn't my purpose :/

[alexis474542]

Its not music. So when will you be arriving at my house in terrible terrible america?

[chekchekdoublechek]

4:33 is not music and any suggestion otherwise is misanthropic nonsense.

[fatzdepenguin]

my future music teacher ^__^

[4evacbfan]

oh my god - stop messing around with your hair!!

[myusikah]

I think 4:33 is brilliant too. :3

[GONEmypurpleflapjack]

Cage's piece wasn't music, it was performance art. I'm not bashing it, though I personally would be pissed if I worked hard to be in that orchestra and I just had to sit there.

[borisisthemusic]

confusing 

[HawtTigre]

I agree that John cage's piece is great however i am going to say it is not, so tom, i will be expecting you at my house on tuesday please! <3 tom

[true298]

its not music- just so i get to meet u and laff at u punch my mum :P

[JonaOlsen]

My God, Tom, you are one confused, gorgeous and extremely talented young man!

[Mikazha]

If I say 4.33 isn't music, will Tom come to my house or my mum's house. If he's going to punch my mum, I'd suggest he went to her house, but if he insists on coming to my house, he's welcome to punch my landlady. Actually wouldn't mind that at all. Just be careful, because she's over 80 years old, and she might break her hip or something. Then again, I wouldn't say that 4.33 isn't music, it's just weird, and weird is good. So, I guess Tom Milsom isn't going to punch anyone because of me..

[ohhelloindie]

best music exam study video of my life.

[timeladyandshazamm97]

@HandfullOfMinutes actually we're not that lucky. I couldn't learn to play piano because I saw notes as colours as well as letters as colours, so when I tried to remember which note was which it was too confusing because they were named after letters that were different colours.

[HandfulOfMinutes]

@timeladyandshazamm97 Fair enough! As I say, the viewpoint of a non-synesthetic is always going to be a bit naive compared to that of someone who actually is one.

[yusmiffins]

@HandfulOfMinutes Even though synesthesia makes mental math, music, and foreign language difficult, it does make music and words more beautiful. Yeah, we can see it as unlucky, but I see it as putting in a little extra work to get a bigger reward. I just picked up guitar, and I have to put in a little more effort, but I get beautiful sounds and colors as a result.

[HandfulOfMinutes]

@yusmiffins That's really interesting! Thanks for chiming in.

[yusmiffins]

@timeladyandshazamm97 I have synesthesia too!

[bluepebblecat]

@HandfulOfMinutes uuh,it pretty cool tbh because iv not always had it not since i got PANDAS when i was about 9, and its fun experimenting with my brain, but for a while a was really scared of purple because i associated it with pain. but yeah you dont even notice often.

[TheGoldenTV]

"Congrats, United States, another thing to add to your list of things that make you not very good."

Tom's so awesome.

[LuLuDee123]

its not music. come round to my house?

[bluepebblecat]

i have synthesia and when i listen to 4:33 i can hear egg colours, sort of greys light blues and whites. isn't that odd.

[HandfulOfMinutes]

@bluepebblecat That's fascinating! I've always felt that synesthetics are lucky in a way, but then I suppose what seems fantastic to me must be pretty normal to them - am I right?

[cspiccologurl]

i'm learning about 20th century music in my music theory class right now....

my professor says that the theory of 20th century music is that there is no theory

[hughesrock]

lol " oh god this is gonna be horrible" XD

[Iamanerimonster]

so much hair so little time to stoke it all XD

[jokinglyskeptical95]

Ok as a dancer I have to say that the reason right of spring caused so much uproar was that the people who who went to see it were expecting a classical ballet and it was so far from that, that people just went crazy (not the good kind) and...yeah...that's the story.

[Firescaric]

tom sounds like david tennent.

[IndigoAngelGirl]

I agree Averyluckypenny... although the us isn't the only one who makes mistakes...

[Averyluckypenny]

he talks so fast thet the sound can't keep up wiith his handsome self!

[ShadowWolfzy]

I don't like John Cage. He was a bit too much of a nutter. So Tom doesn't have to push me that far to get me to say that 4:33 isn't a piece of music. Now come up to Scotland, to my house so I can kidnap you and listen to you talk all day! :L your voice is gorgeous! :)

[francessification]

I wish I was as smart as Tom... I'd ace the general knowledge part of my piano exam. Which makes me wonder if it really is general knowledge to when Debussy died, or the amount of studies that Stephen Heller wrote.

[bill11097]

I don't want him to punch my mother :o 

[Jemima1377]

You could use subtitles... ^_^

[Tsugo582]

Hahah!

Congratulations United States! I'll ad that to you talent of things that make you not very good.

Oh and Mr. Tom? Please stop being awesome.

[Smile4Me127]

You talk really fast... xD

[TangerineLightning]

I don't think this took away his valuable wine drinking time at all. ;)

[HandfulOfMinutes]

@TangerineLightning Oh you know, Tom's good at working in his various obligations.

[NothingUnspecial]

when tom said the traffic outside, a truck beeped its horn, as to say what you gonna do about it

[MrGameposter]

Webern = mindfuck. It's apparent that he has real musical skill, but he's too focused on fucking up on purpose just to be avant garde and different. It's a shame, really.

[CarolineLb1]

50 seconds in, I gave up trying to understand what he was saying, and just kept staring at his hair falling into his eyes...

[supermax125]

i say it not music, just so tom milsom will come round to my house :D

[annielicious1992]

Can you speak a bit faster?! ^^

[imphlatround]

tom is gonna be single for the rest of his life, since nobody is good enough for him.

[cuttlefishii]

Tom, I love love LOVE hearing you talk about classical music. And I want to hear more. :D

Also, the fact that you talked about 4-33 made my day ^.^

[Sofyeah]

I totally want to be a guest presenter haha.

[MaryIzzieAnne]

this video was posted on my birthday day :D

[HandfulOfMinutes]

@MaryIzzieAnne Dannnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnng. It's nice when that sort of thing happens!

[swantonnoodles]

Information overload :/

Oh and you have perfect skin. Unfair.

[simbapip]

This is brilliant! Better then my music classes haha!

[thenitwaswritten]

I'm only saying this because I want you to come 'round my house: It's not a piece of music :). I await said punch eagerly my good sir.

[raggamuffins13]

I feel like I need a nap after watching this

[UndeadPetal]

@invertd007 Yes. Tom clearly hates the united states, that's why he has visited it so often for a guy in his early twenties.

[HSMdramaprincess]

When I was in band we all begged our director to let us play 4:23 but she never did, but ive always wanted to play it it's genius!!

[sunshinekoala]

Dear Tom,

You're adorable. Let's get married.

Love,

Elise

PS. Thumbs up for a shotgun wedding? haha

[Wateenlangenaamhea]

Cut. Your. Hair. Thank. You.

[jennywren1]

Apparently 4'33 was inspired when Mr Cage found himself in an underground room of some sort, I forget what exactly - a wine cellar or something similar perhaps. He found that even when he sat entirely still in a room removed from the external environment, there were still sounds, and found that he could hear the faint echo of his own heartbeat. He came to the conclusion that noise is everywhere, and that any noise can be music, and thus the concept for 4'33 was born.

[jennywren1]

Aaand I ran out of space so here's my opinon on silence as a musical concept. Silence is unarguably effective within music, but by removing the notes around it we remove the contrast and thus make it somewhat harder to appreciate!

4'33 is definitely a beautiful idea (although not an original one according to wikipedia, o fountain of knowledge) and a piece with just one or two notes or one big chord would have such a different feeling!

[wrongmonettube]

remaining comment.......

[HandfulOfMinutes]

HRM?

[TheMattieBoosh]

4'33 is a great great idea! and I love that tom talked about it :D we're studying Post Modernism right now and John Cage ... Tom Milsom is awesome :) more more more

[ChateauOfADoubt]

John Cage FTW!

[invertd007]

I love Tom too, very much! So articuate!

[weefunProductions]

mmmmmmm, TOO FAST!!! cool!!!!!!

[caitlinbarlow95]

O; fast much?

[asimplecadence]

I love Tom Milson. I love him lots.

[SimplyJalyn]

Wait, wait, wait slow down.

*gets pen and paper to take notes*

Okay... let's try this again.

[HatticusRex]

JOHN CAGE <3

I love him. I had to learn about him in GCSE music because I was the only one who chose to do experimental. Lulz. Love you Tom.

[alicerawrr]

God you talk fast! =O Still amazing! xDD Love youu.

[Kahleeea]

Ah Tom I could listen to you talk all day..

[HatticusRex]

Me too

[iheartpeterpan13]

i know you and alex day mentioned something about a blog tv anime class.  Would you instead teach it on this or maybe music theory? you seem to know alot about the topic and are an excellent teacher.

xMeganx

[teddyboink]

wtf is with that hair?

[HandfulOfMinutes]

Careful now, it doubles as a deadly weapon.

[teddyboink]

it does have a certain martial arts weapon quality

[Kloxboy]

Well that was fun. :D

My favorites from the 20th include: Satie, Gorecki, Glass, Reich, Williams, Zappa and Tiersen.

[kathryn299115]

Could he talk any faster? but seriously love tom milsom :)

[vulcanbirdbrain]

:D

:50 to around 2:15 sounded a bit like oliver ...with a british accent.

(and in the hopes making you come to california...)

4:33 is NOT music! it's just a bunch of carp and a waste of time! it's not completely fascinating or intriguing at all!

[HandfulOfMinutes]

Ha! I noticed that too and what makes it extra odd is that, due to my heritage, I have a strong British accent whenever I'm around others who have the same.

[ChateauOfADoubt]

haha...are you just trying to see if Tom will punch your mother in the face?

[crazymelon]

WOO!

TOM!

...YEAH!