John Cage: "In A Landscape"

[kawikatube]

i am still listening to it.. omg.

[thebrokenclaim]

luv.

[yuya7723]

simply amazing !

[samuelgperry]

dat nigga was huge!

[SuperVideodave]

@samuelgperry hahaaha lol!!! I think the piano was small.

[sudokuwkroku]

Like a dream... I usually don't like contemporary classical music but this one is pretty good

[MrPaevo]

@sudokuwkroku That pretty much says it all...

[SunZenHeadHomonid]

Oh my god.

[mybikemybike]

Way ahead of his time.

[MrDNANDA]

this is so beautiful.. :)

[kennobody]

oh shutup

[jbearden]

433 was for the sounds you might hear. Yourself.

[kevinleroyable]

orgasmatic

[joeyshabadu187]

i like this

[Lewis1711]

This is an amazing piece of music. I am not normally into "classical" or composed or whatever music like this, but this is just amazing.

[SuperVideodave]

@Lewis1711 ....there's a lot more of it.

[organisenoise]

dj shadow......



[throwingbacktheapple]

@organisenoise what about him good sir?

[dpiktoria]

This masterpiece can open in my mind an "empty space", a palace of peace.

[danlanois]

It's nice. But I prefer Alexei Lubimovs version on ECM Records.

[ARobinsonization]

This is beautiful. Guess there is more to John Cage than just atonality. Just so ornate and creative.

[spockezri]

This is so beautiful :)

I'm listening to it in the rain whilst reading Dubliners, it's so perfect...

[toltas13]

I know he's famous for doing chance type pieces, but after hearing this beautiful song I cannot believe he gave up making this kind of music that "talks" to people for the "action" of chance. I can only wonder what kind of non-controversial masterpieces he would have composed had he not changed his style in 1950

[Egoguitar1]

Amazing timeless piece. If autumn leaves changing color had a sound...this would be it.

[Godamatic]

John Cage said: 'If something is boring after 2 minutes, try it for 4. If still boring, then 8. Then 16. Then 32. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all.'

[jeff551z]

@Godamatic or they fall to sleep

[BruisedEyeSockets]

@Godamatic Oh my God.

[MrPaevo]

@Godamatic Sorry, what's boring after 2 minutes is doubly boring after 4 and so on and so forth...

[Godamatic]

@MrPaevo Good one but i didn't come up with that one if you notice there are quotes '' '' at the very top comment meaning i just repeated what Mr. Cage said. Sorry if you find life boring.. Maybe you should try origami or spelunking. All Hail John Cage.

[milesdavisistheman]

This is just too beautiful for words.

[phoneboothLC]

woww john cage was a big man... look at him compared to the size of that piano..

[VukWolf23]

@phoneboothLC its cuz that is a toy piano... he wrote a suite for it

[huertamj128]

@VukWolf23 oh... really?

[aeronleslie]

very nice

[FriendlyShadow1]

This is great, and it reminds me of Debussy.

[tigrantahmizean]

Thank You.

[musicman4536]

I'm 15 and I love this kind of beautiful piano music. I consider John Cage to be an artist than a musician. On a side note, I have lost all respect for those five people who disliked this mesmerizing music.

[seasaltisland]

Songs without Piano.

What's wrong with kids these days?

[larpusrp]

One of the most beautiful pieces I've ever heard. Cage is truly unique.

[SuperMegaPeanut]

I just jizzed out of my ears

[PiscaCPT]

Bravo! Cheers from Brazil

[ImCalebRosengard]

@PiscaCPT Bravo! Cheers from Brazil 2

[MargaretHarmer]

I always come back to John Cage…

[mperezn71]

biutuful

[BarrySeroff]

@AngryDraftsman I'm not sure if he considered ALL sound music. There are specific instructions in his radio pieces to avoid newscasts. It makes me think that music is not just sound, but sound that does not convey information. i.e. not language, or at least not the language we speak.

[BarrySeroff]

@AngryDraftsman I'm not sure if he considered ALL sound music. There are specific instructions in his radio pieces to avoid newscasts. It makes me think that music is not just sound, but sound that we are necessarily detached from. i.e. not language, or at least not the language we speak.

[hobbyoda]

素晴らしいです　BEAUTIFUL

[ClaesCornelius1]

This is a hard and challenging piece to play, but even more difficult to record - there shouldn't be too much ambient reverb. This version sounds truly perfect!

[KeiraForsyth]

Thank you for putting this on YT: it has quite made my evening. I had no idea that Cage had written such accessible, and beautiful, music.

[SquidAttackMusic]

One of my personal favorite songs. 

[ADailyRitual]

anybody know where i can get the sheet music i have been searching some websites and blogs but i cant find it

[BasdK95]

I love this.

[Huffinearts]

some of his stuff actually is music TG!

[AngryDraftsman]

@Huffinearts

If you follow his philosophy all sound is music or no sound is

[Hamgammy]

@Huffinearts are you a fucking idiot? just because it doesn't sound pleasant to your ear doesn't mean it's not music. That was the whole point of experimentalism and more spefically indeterminacy in Cage's music. He was challenging accepted cultural norms in music and demonstrating that everything really, even if it doesn't fit into an "acceptable" scale or tonality range, is still musi and contains beauty. Obviously this movement has passed right over your head along with the ignorant masses.

[daredevillboy1982]

ahhhh...this is sooo amazing. something about it makes me think of a walk through a park during early winter...

[spainoner]

i love this sooo much

[schkent09]

there is a definite almost kind of like a cool structure to this piece. totally

[TheComposinator3000]

John Cage is awesome.

[SoldatSolutrea]

For the last time, everyone, music is art, and therefore has NOTHING TO DO WITH COMPETITION!! John Cage was certainly not trying to out do anyone greater with the apparent profound silence of 4'33''. That piece was but a message for all to enjoy the pleasure of sound without producing any notes, it calls for all to reach out with imagination and appreciate noise. Yet, avant-garde can get over the top, and music still takes skill, as it should.

[MrPaevo]

@SoldatSolutrea Then why do musicians and composers participate in numerous competitions in order to make their respective careers?

[randomuserguy]

This is a very good piece, like one of those things I could listen to all day long.

[aperisimo]

@randomuserguy

yeah, it's one of those....

[nuclearRabbit123]

to the guy who doesn't get 433. if you dont like cage, leave. nobody is shoving anything down your throat. you are actually the one doing this.

[silverapple127]

kono kyoku ochitsukuuuuuuuu~

[kepuysac]

cage y el desierto de sechura

[jrmcgee1]

This is amazing music.

[shiralunacy]

Sub-sub-footnote to musical history. In the 1980s my sister took part with many other performance piano students at New England Conservatory in a recording of one of Cage's pieces. At one point her stool squeaked. Eek.

[sarahrocksyoursockss]

what is the song with the nails in the piano?

[NewMusicXX]

@sarahrocksyoursockss Search for "prepared piano" and you'll find those pieces

[sarahrocksyoursockss]

thank you

[sarahrocksyoursockss]

@NewMusicXX thank you (:

[FishingForLobster]

@sarahrocksyoursockss .....lol....cute user name, sarah.

[strongmungus]

so nostalgic It almost makes me not afraid to die the way it deconstructs at the end. i shed a man-tear.

[oryandymackie95]

@strongmungus

Everything just got awkward.

[1kirin1]

Might this be the first minimalist piece?

[pianiplunker]

Not by a long shot, that honer may go to Erik Satie who inspired these 2 pieces (including dream) by Cage.

[1kirin1]

Would you care to recommend some particularly minimalist pieces by Satie? I'm playing La Fils de l'etoile I'm thinking it might qualify.

[pianiplunker]

Perhaps the five nocturnes, my particular favorites. Probably the closest pieces to this particular style are the danses de travers from Pièces Froides. Check the IMSLP website for the scores. If you can't find them send me a private message.

[N0TKA]

here is he speaking

:)

[ToniMaelstrom]

My piano teacher recomended this composer to me. She's right, this music is wonderful.

[dallexandro]

a genius. eno before eno.

[AimmarCair]

aphex before aphex :)

[andbluesky]

This song reminds me of a quiet place far from everything and everyone where you can rest forever and ever. A place where you can find the peace that you looked for the entire life...

Peace... rest... quiet

[Margatoroid]

4分33秒ばっかり聴いてないでこっちも聴いて欲しい(´・ω・­｀)

隠れた名曲

[ruvagada]

descubri a jhon cage en mi clase de historia del arte...me encanta su filosofia, su propuesta musical y visual, ¡gracias por su talento!

[bluephihitman]

Misterstudebaker, if that's what you really think, then you maybe should hold off on performing the piece till you better understand it, and better understand John Cage in general. It's not a conservatory piano recital piece, it's music that just happened to be for piano.

[thebeatcreeper]

yeah pieces like this one and Dream are truly beautiful they show his beautiful sensitivity to sounds..

[1drummer214]

perfect comment beat creeper

[misterstudebaker]

I'm learning this right now. It's very poorly written. It's basically a melody, a tone poem - there are very few harmonies or chords in it. He has the sustain pedal throughout (which is cool) but has all these dotted 1/2 notes tied to dotted 1/4 notes, which are impossible to hear, due to the pedal. It makes no sense. I think he wrote it without the pedal, and then played it with the pedal and said "WOW!" and just kept it, rather than re-write it *for* the pedal. I truly love this piece, tho'.

[songsmadeforyou]

i think that if misterstudbaker truly loves the piece, its fine for him to say that in his opinion its "poorly written"

i don't take offense to it, i don't mind dissecting a piece

[howlingsin]

heartachingly beautiful !!

[dudarstmein]

this is too much

[1drummer214]

in a good way or bad?

[dudarstmein]

absolutely good of course LOL

[cition]

reminds me a paint of Van Gogh

[musiloo]

Could Arvo Part have been influenced by this? Probably not - but who knows?? It's not important - thanks so much for posting.

[nocerotrequarti]

genius

[fermixx]

does johnny cage have something to do with this guy?

i hope he doesnt

really nice piece. im gonna learn piano in order to play something like this

[dstdvl]

i'm guessing john cage was one of harold budd's main influences.

[nbv556]

i love cage's music it can be very challenging and also so exquisitely sweet and gentle..

[freshhh1994]

anyone know where I could get sheet music for this?

[fenetremagique]

john cage motherfucking owns

[kingbobius]

Cage is incredible.

[andressavidigal]

awesome!

[swawandoo]

so clearly, john cage was much more than just 4'33

[bootheavy]

yeah, he's 9:50 also.

[stefandetrez]

Negative commentators, you didn't get it. Swawandoo is right.

[Emilduvier]

@swawandoo But 4'33 is so much more then music!

[DavidEasthope]

@Emilduvier No, I'd dare say it's far less than music. It is the complete absence of music and art, and should therefore not be appreciated as such. People who keep shoving 4'33 down my throat need to get a grip on how they interpret the garbage that is "modern" art: a slough of uncreative figures trying to wrestle individuality out of their own lack of talent. "I can't paint like DaVinci, so instead I'll convince the world that my splotchy mess is superior."

[theknightmarlowe]

@DavidEasthope It's not less than music - after all, it is music! We have to remember here that 4:33 isn't silence, as the common misconception suggests.

And if I was to have a painting on my bedroom wall, I'd rather have a so called "splotchy mess" than Da Vinci anyday, simply because it would suit my room more. Geddit?

[maniacguitar]

@DavidEasthope 4'33 calls for one's own imagination, to interpret the ambience which always surrounds us for there never such a thing as silence.

If you don't like this train of thought, you could at least acknowledge it, then discard it, for it doesn't go with what you think music is.

Little insiders tip though, "musical" (music can be very abstract, as some feelings are) understanding doesn't come easy, one has to listen carefully and remove all preconceived notions of what one likes.

[evanescent25]

@Emilduvier Is so much less then music.

[RhymeByRhyme]

@swawandoo yeah...well 4'33 is more conceptual, it's the apogee of his philosophy, (and it was pretty "shocking" too!) but surely it doesn't erases the rest of cage's ideas and composition!

[Link123seabass]

amazing