John Cage Water Walk

Thank you or posting this.

What does that condescending, close-minded, middle-class, bow-tied prick know about music and art? "Experimental SOUND...He takes it seriously; I think it's interesting... If you're amused you may laugh... The review was not entirely favorable..." What a prick.

the close - minded 'prick' has balls to have Cage on his show, he has to present this music that he thinks is fascinating to a live audience in a way that they can understand. The presenter knows the value of Cage's work but must frame it this way for it to be taken in by the audience.

I don't know--though perhaps you do--that it was the presenter's decision to have Cage on the show. And I think that if you watch this clip again, scrutinizing and listening to the presenter, you'll see that privately he considers Cage a charlatan. You may detect pomposity as well. Maybe it was harsh of me to call him a "prick"; probably he's somewhere between a prick and an asshole. Call him a perineum.

You know, it's that sort of condescending behavior that pushed audiences away from the performance hall. Sure he may not have understood it but he never at any point showed a condescending attitude toward cage, further he kept the bad review to himself but read the favorable part to the audience.

beautiful

I would love to see some recording of Frank Zappa performing with this dude, Must have been an interesting show.

This is random and this is why is so hilarious, no one would expected him to do those things, and in a so serious way I have to say. I guess 90% of the entertaining comes from watching him doing things to make sounds, I don't know how it's possible to just hear sounds and not get bored or enjoy it(I think you can convince yourself and others that you like it though to feel better then others). I guess this has also other meanings that I couldn't find out myself.

Most of his work, about this time at least, consisted of composition through randomization. He had no idea what he would write and didnt actually influence the work with his own ideas

Cage was, alongside with King Tubby, the most important music maker of the 20th century