John Cage - Water Walk

lol the whiskey and seltzer, I love john cage, he was soo awesome.

This is so similar to Frank Zappa's appearance on The Tonight Show. It's on here someplace.

To see a true walk on water watch on youtube: NEWEST ROBOT THAT WALK ON WATER

It's condescending and unproductive comments like that which pushed audiences out of concert halls. John cage was expecting the audience to laugh, in fact he encouraged it. it is random, and always different, and that in itself is audio beauty. I'm a big fan of Cage but really you have to keep in mind this was completely unexpected and very absurd. Of course they'd laugh at something so different and alien. Cage didn't consider himself as "above" the public, and was clear on that point.

ditto everything you said....Jaydoggy531!

It shouldn't bother you - because Cage intended and expected that laughter to be there... I compare it to a composer writing a bel canto piece and expecting unwritten ornamentations from the performers.

holy Shit, Cage is so young in this!

You just take music too seriously. You care too much about the 'rules' of art, but they are really only a definition of what is generally known to work, based on observation of that which was tried before those rules existed. You can't rationallize music, not that much. If it sounds good, it is good. And this sounds interesting, quirky, outrageously silly. These are all positive things.

I understand what you are saying. I listen to Tipsy, a band that makes some of the wierdest music I've ever heard. Their song, "Hey!" is on a DDR game.

The difference between John Cage and Tipsy is, tipsy has a tune. There is as much a tune here as going and sitting in a busy kitchen at a restaurant for a whole night and listening.

Cage isn't above the laughing audience, he's deliberately clowning for them. That's all the situation allows for and he's entertaining. In the meantime people get to hear some experimental music maybe and have their horizons broadened. But I wonder if the main effect of the mad professor act isn't just to confirm a load of prejudices about "serious" music.