Modern Composition John Cage

Originally Posted by jujimufu

He doesn't even think we might actually find silence once we're dead, although that's only for him to know and us to find out now.

Come on people! Let's find out!

LOL

Originally Posted by Gardener

Come on people! Let's find out!

Oh, Heavens Gate.

Originally Posted by gms5287

This isn't music, it isn't the Four Seasons by Vivaldi, all music must sound like that!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Pretty much everyone here despises Vivaldi, it seems.

I don't see how that was implied with that statement. Personally, in any case, I love Vivaldi.

Originally Posted by Magna Carta

Pretty much everyone here despises Vivaldi, it seems.

Oh please, Vivaldi is the shiznite. If I had the patience to perfect my piccolo playing (which I don't) I would love to play that double trumpet concerto in D at some point.

Why would you care what "people here" like? You do realize what bad taste some people have, right?

Originally Posted by gms5287

Why would you care what "people here" like? You do realize what bad taste some people have, right?

Well, according to what I've seen in this forum from most users, "if it isn't Vivaldi, then it's good" is pretty much the motto. Most of my tastes I share with many others here (I love (post)modern music such as the conceptions of Xenakis, Cage, and Shnittke), but I see a highly unreasonable hatred toward Vivaldi.

Hatred towards Vivaldi? Is there such a thing?

Lemme see

I haven't posted here in a while, and I guess it's sort of a weird thing, because I always get caught up in something, but when I never post, I'm like, damn I'm missing out.

(I read up to page 7 and gave up, for the record)

Anyway, what's music? I still don't know. I might not ever. I can call something music, but can someone not, and we're both correct? Can I record myself walking through New York City and call it music? What's ambient noise, then? Is there such a thing as noise? Is it just what sound isn't intentionally presented? Do I, then, make music by intentionally presenting it? Is creativity necessary in music? Or can I say nothing is music except what I call it? Same thing for art, I guess. Take a picture of a blank wall, and it can be called art... someone sees a blank wall though, and they walk right past it. Is art universal? Is art all around us, omnipresent, and only dormant, and only needs attention, intentional representation, to spring to life? Then, is everything presented automatically art? Does the creator's intention matter, and if so, will people change their minds when the creator changes his?

So many questions. Mmm.

wow...you've thought about this haven't you?
There are indeed a lot of questions there.