Tim Ovens plays John Cage · Sonata IV for Prepared Piano

The German pianist Tim Ovens prepares a grand piano for John Cages "Sonatas & Interludes" for prepared piano. The piano strings become prepared with screws, pieces of plastic, rubber and more to get a drumlike sound.
Tim Ovens plays plays the Sonata No. IV.
The record is part of the CD & CD-ROM John Cage · Sonatas & Interludes (www.johncage.de, www.timovens.de).

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[MrAlfred1995]

Please, everyone, lets just stop arguing briefly and think.The point of this music is not to blast out loud and rave to,nor is it for chin stroking musicians to admire his use of unconvetional cadences,or interesting harmonies. John Cage said that he liked sound, and he liked it for its own sake,not becuase of emotions or images conured up by them.This is simply an attempt to sound different in a world where 90% of all music sounds the sameand whether you like it or not, he suceeds in doing that

[tempodimarcia]

@SamWatts89 No, all of the pieces are performed with the same preparations (there's a table of all the materials and their positions in the piano before the actual written music in the score).

[HaniiPuppy]

I really love the prepared piano because of the vastly different and unusual music that can sound good on it. It's a shame I can't find an audio unit or soundfont for prepared piano so I can play it on my keyboard :(

[gridy999]

c´mon.. have you heard Ravel orchertral works? any stravinsky? prokofiev? ginastera? this is only an experiment, a musical tendence.. but musical weight.. maybe some people who thinks like Cage make him that big.. and.. let me guess.. all americans.. like warhol, they give them that trascendence. but.. look out something like this.. I talk for every thing I´ve seen from Cage.. obviusly, I haven´t it all.. but... he´s famous for this type of things...

[EdiEllerymissing]

@Marsuvees1298 Absolutely. He changes so many things in music. A great revolutionary, great composer!

[EdiEllerymissing]

@MrAlfred1995 Well said!

[Marsuvees1298]

@gridy999 Not much weight in music history? I spend almost four weeks on cage and the various experimentalists in my college music history class. Sounds like quite a bit of weight to me :/

[Marsuvees1298]

Cage is either insane, or a genius. Maybe both.

[HenriFaust]

@patek86 You search for underlying order or meaning in the piece. You speak as though the piano was alive. The sound is *just* sound! The piano is *just* a piano! They merely *are*. Why does modification matter one whit? Why should one reify the act into murder?

[Hyardacil]

@patek86 Indeed. How dare he take a different approach to creating and organizing sounds (read: composing). What a criminal!

[AndycKV]

@gridy999

That is possibly the most condescending thing I have ever heard. The 'common people'....you are the kind of person who drives people away from modern music, with your 'high-brow' sneering.

[berndschumannsvideos]

These kind of pieces by John Cage convince me that he was a serious, genious composer. Maybe I am not ready yet for his other stuff.