John Cage "Bacchanale, for prepared piano"

My music video for John Cage's "Bacchanale, for prepared piano" (with Stephen Drury).

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Music

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• john
• cage
• bacchanale
• for
• prepared
• piano
• stephen
• drury

[pong224]

can somebody say..... GAMELAN?!?! HELL YEAH

[collaredtristan]

Some day we all will be like John Cage. In the meantime, I think he would want us to enjoy hearing sounds, and probably not argue about them.

Mr. Cage did, by the way, study art, architecture and so forth, philosophy of Zen with Dr. D.T. Suzuki, and music with Arnold Schoenberg and others. It isn't as though his compositions came from a position of ignorance.

[Rickeeey1]

Very nice to listen to, especially the opening. One of Cage's less radical works to say the least.

[progdandrea]

@pong224 is exactly gamelan

[EmilyMaddenComposer]

Cool.

[HelplessInOttawa]

I enjoy all kinds of "art music" but no matter how much I try I just can't get into Cage. To me his work feels shallow, like someone who is trying to hard. I don't hear the insight that I do from his predecessors and contemporaries. Mind you, I don't hate his work.

Is it just me?

[TwentyTigers]

@collaredtristan Sorry but when it comes to assessing art - the degrees and academic resume of the artist are completely and totally irrelevant.

[FVmike]

@TheRiteOfWinter Prepared piano means that you put different material in and on the piano to produce the different effects you hear.

wiki search prepared piano, you can find all you want to know and more there!

[TheRiteOfWinter]

by the way, what is it with the piano??? does somebody knw anything beyond the word 'prepared'?

[TheRiteOfWinter]

No, I must say this didnt sound to me like gamelan. They usually have some really intricate rhythms. Its like the style but without some of its substance...

[Rasts]

Yeah before I read the comments all I could think of was Gamelan

[OCUBOX]

@xXReidABookXx you're correct there about learning and finding a new kind of sound pleasing to the ear, But Cages music causes me Pain (as in ear-aches), so maybe that is not an option, I still have other composers that Bend tonality without breaking it (well very close to but without). . .