John Cage performing "Water Walk" in January, 1960 on the popular TV show I've Got A Secret.
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"At the time, Cage was teaching Experimental Composition at N...
John Cage performing "Water Walk" in January, 1960 on the popular TV show I've Got A Secret.
"At the time, Cage was teaching Experimental Composition at New York City's New School. Eight years beyond 4:33, he was (as our smoking MC informs us) the most controversial figure in the musical world at that time. His first performance on national television was originally scored to include five radios, but a union dispute on the CBS set prevented any of the radios from being plugged in to the wall. Cage gleefully smacks and tosses the radios instead of turning them on and off.
While treating Cage as something of a freak, the show also treats him fairly reverentially, cancelling the regular game show format to allow Cage the chance to perform his entire piece. "
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That was 3 minutes of a man acting like a madman. I think Cage is a genius and love his music, but to someone who isn't open to this as an art form, it's a guy banging on kitchen appliances.
Music like this is absurd... laughable. That's one of it's many charms. John Cage has helped me realize that music is all around me at all times, but to others, he's bat shit insane.
This isn't music. Tipsy has more talent than John Cage. There is NO talent. There is NO creativity. He uses his creativity almost parallel to a Serial Killer. Parallel in that there is no positive outcome of the creativity. There is no way any sane person can seriously say John Cage is A) a Musician and B) an Artist. This is a man that was born to show the world that originality is not always good.
this piece is gorgeous. it makes me sad to hear the audience laugh the way they do in this video at such a work of sonic art. but thats generally what you have to expect out of the public
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Music like this is absurd... laughable. That's one of it's many charms. John Cage has helped me realize that music is all around me at all times, but to others, he's bat shit insane.
John Cage was at the cutting edge then, along with abstract expressionist visual artists.