John Cage playing amplified cacti and plant materials with a feather

John Cage performing on Nam June Paik's TV special called 'Good Morning Mr. Orwell' from 1984. In the beginning, we see that Cage is joined by Takehisa Kosugi and one other unidentified person. perhaps they were performing a composition or improvisation that they would have done during a Merce Cunningham dance. there is also a cut away to a Joseph Bueys piano performance art piece.

more info here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_Morning,_Mr._Orwell

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Music

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• john cage
• takehisa kosugi
• nam june paik

[ycharb]

@RoboticusMusic There's a non-weird part to youtube ?!?

[Henriksdottir]

I love this music.

[realmusicone]

@JuanPlumaRoja Sounds like you need a mushroom of some sort. Obviously your brain is next to mash. May I suggest for you to go fuck yourself...how's that wise-guy. My statement still stands, Cage wrote crap and you like crap, good for you!!!

[JuanPlumaRoja]

@realmusicone what an ignorant prick u are. "waterboarding SUSPECTS" nice, obviously you are a dumb gringo who never experienced torture and in fact all of ur dumbass rant shows ur simply a narrowminded fascist. go fuck yourself and yeah thx for ur opinion: nobody gives a shit. dumb fucker making jokes about torture ur embarassing yourself with your plain ignorance. its not music, nor cage intended to do music in the classical meaning dumbfuck, of course u know shit about fluxus

[tes4o]

hahahahahahahahahaha

[dleal22]

no one mentions the possible humor by Cage here. not in general, just specifically this performance. it is humor of the highest order. not to mention the idea of the feather, amplified cacti and plants, i'm sorry, is not art for sake of art, it's just a really good idea, how could it not produce desired music.

[ilovesteves]

@realmusicone well yeah, it's all about the message with John Cage, as a lot of people say 'the mind and not the ear', although I do love a lot of his 'music'. But I understand why one studying music would be frustrated with having to study John Cage talking about sound. But on the other hand I love the 'disease' idealism linked to the prepared piano pieces and the micro-macro-cosmic structures. I think it is very thought provoking and it says whatever you need it to say.

[RotatingHead]

@realmusicone You don't hate things because you hate things?

[bobbyrocks338]

Idiots.

[Experimentelle]

I have no response and I’m responding with it…

[DickNixonArisen]

@realmusicone If you would lose your job, degree and your life for criticizing a musician, maybe you need to find a different setting to work in. Somehow, it seems likely to me that you are overemphasizing the degree to which this particular musician is considered sacred ground. If your complaint is more with the establishment that has enshrined a person's work as gospel, then direct your complaints against that establishment and not against the person.

[Kriskazam]

TO THOSE WHO DO NOT UNDERSTAND THIS ARE ALL JUST PLEBEIANS AND NEED TO OPEN UP YOUR MINDS HERPRETENTIOUSDERPHERPDERP