Opus 20 Modern Masterworks: John Cage - Part 1

#01: Biography
"Opus 20 Modern Masterworks: John Cage"
documentary film (Uplink Factory, Japan, 2006)
music by John Cage, Ingo Metzmarcher, Hermann Ktetzschmar, David Tudor, Ensemble modern
film by Klaus Lindemann
presented by the Alte oper Frankfurt

Category:

Music

Tags:

• John
• Cage
• Ingo
• Metzmarcher
• Hermann
• Ktetzschmar
• David
• Tudor
• Ensemble
• modern

[sporting4eva]

it's arguable if this is music or not... but the point is, there are people that actually like this... if so, let them hear it... if anyone doesn't like this at all ( like myself ;) ) then at least let the people that actually do enjoy it!

[ae52]

respekt jonh MASTER cage!

[Hartcomposer]

This is great. A good definition of music is sonorous air, not organization of sound.

[charmeueueur]

@86marcus I would suggest, take a score of Beethoven, of Bach, of Mozart and try to feel what are they talking about. You could find even "scarier" sounds into their works than in Cage.

[Ugallardo]

This guy is insane.

[goldencricket]

Nietzsche would vomit.

[nobodady1]

@86marcus I think Cage would be OK if you did not call these sounds "music". What was important to him was listening to sounds, not naming them one thing or another. However, I think more is to be gained in considering these sounds as possible music, or suggestive of music, or as materials to made into music. Complementary to that, we can consider music returning to earth, if you will, becoming again, just sound.

[CigaretteSmokingMann]

@86marcus hahahha this is the funniest thing i've recently read. you should be a music theoretican, really!

please.. just read some books about music, art, stop listening beethoven and then write "clever" comments.

[Chatetris]

@86marcus huh I didn't know I heard moog type of sounds in my daily life? YOU might think it's music but if you say this isn't music then that means there is no such thing as music.

[86marcus]

I am sorry, but this is not music. Music is the organization of sounds into form. Bach, Mozart, Beethoven. Cage's sound are scary or they are the sounds of our planet, the sound of air, the sound of birds, etc, etc. We are listening all these sounds from day 1, music is the art of organizing these sounds. It bothers me that people call this music. It is not music, it is regular sounds from our daily life.

[gregbboy619]

Ha ha cartoon's music! You the scenes where the cat follows the mouse but the mouse knows so he doesnt move yet but the cat notices him...nice!

[DarkZekeX]

I wish I could have met him :( Great composer, and he seemed like such a sweet man.