Electro-acoustic "music"
As the lecturers on my music-technology degree course called it. They rammed this stuff down our throats at DMU but I have to admit that it made us listen to things in a different way and encouraged us to experiment with sounds in a way we might not have dared. I actually think John Cage's 4'33" is pretty clever....its 273 seconds which in terms of minus Celcius equals "absolute zero" - oh and he was off his head on mushrooms and shit all the time.
( Twizla ...a shrew living on the edge of a bog, extinct on, Thu 31 Mar 2011, 22:09, 1 reply)

Tsk
The point of Cage's 4'33" is that it provides a space in which think about the sounds around us as music. That's genius, and if you don't understand that then you deserve to be 25th viola in the Burnley Methodist Youth Orchestra.
(Valentine_Sprake immanentising the eschaton since 1983, Thu 31 Mar 2011, 23:48, closed)

I'm happy to agree that it's thought-provoking, and an artistic endeavour.
But I reject the notion that he has composed a piece of music; he has created a thought-experiment.

Whereas Roaratorio can simply fuck right off.
( Extinct Jesus Dossier "...I think it counteracts Hitler's magic...", Fri 1 Apr 2011, 0:07, closed)