I heard this on a classical music radio station and fell in love with it, now I use it to put my daughter to sleep. I love it!
Jeff Dawson
Pierre Boulez said that Cage was not a composer, but an inventor. And I say he was an inventor of perceiving sound in new ways. Maybe an inventor and a philosopher. To me, this is like slowed down Debussy. Peaceful.
Mark Dowding
Actually, it was Schoenberg that said that.
Jeff Dawson
@onegathers You’d think I would know this, given that I read it in Style & Idea many years ago. Thanks for the correction.
onegathers
Actually it was his tutor Schoenberg. But you are spot on everywhere else, our Jeff.
Игорь Дымченко
It's hard to believe that this Masterpiece composed by Cage. Other, experimental, pieces by Him is SO DIFFERENT TO THIS!
Kurisuchiina the Crocodile
also "Dream"
Ernesto Mateo
@Barbara Smith but no
Michael Plautz
What makes this characteristic of other Cage compositions is his employing of chance music for the composition process. However, unlike Music of Changes, he does not employ the I Ching for his chance process. He uses paper imperfections. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_for_Piano_(Cage)
Barbara Smith
Homage to Debussy.
Ghostdog
It's raining. I was walking through the streets and this music was everywhere, in the puddles on the roads, in the sky covered with thick lead clouds, in the branches of naked trees, in the cold wind blowing in my face. I was wondering whether it was me tired of all the routine and monotonous stream of the days, or it was the nature trying to focus my gaze on all the simple beauties I was ignoring though it always appeared right in front of my eyes. In fact, I just wanted to sit somewhere and let the music merge me with it and turn to a tiny peace of an immortal beauty.
Den Man
Very good poetry. I also have a similar feeling listening to this piece.
Ghostdog
@jean luc dorchies thank you for sharing your attitude. Much appreciated.
Thanks everyone for sharing your thoughts and feelings. It's the power and beauty of music connecting us.
jean luc dorchies
Sorry for may bad french-english. The way you wrote et gave your feeling is so beautifull. Tank you.
Jamie Matthias
@Quentin Matthias yea, have been watching on instaflixxer for since december myself :D
Mario Princeton
@Quentin Matthias Definitely, have been watching on InstaFlixxer for since december myself :D
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Sergiusz Wrotek
One of the most popular examples of his early, quasi-minimalist diatonic, modal output, extremely different than later, experimental, aleatoric (indeterminate) work written since the early 1950s.
Irian Greenleaf
I discovered this piece through its version by William Orbit and fell in love. It works really well on marimba too (check out Matt Moore’s performance for example)
Luis R. Irizarry Agosto
Composers often write a dialogue that only the spirit understands.
Sándor
@Josh Baino I reject cage as a from of rejection
Josh Baino
But Cage rejected music as a form of communication
T
There was a few albums Brian Eno did with Harold Budd and Daniel Lanois which I loved and cherished for their simple beauty, immense mood, and "originality" It turns out that they were influenced by this music John Cage recorded some 40 plus years earlier. And so it goes, there is always a source, a first, it is here with this gem.
Unconditionally Guaranteed
@T Well... it really was named 'Furniture Music'. Do some research please.
r q
@T You really made a fool of yourself here.
Callous Physical Theatre
@T Perhaps you could listen to some ambient music for awhile before responding with anger....
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thisisMRJAMES
this always makes me cry, beautiful piece of music
Phoby?
So while listening, I heard the birds outside our house chirping and it just felt perfect with this
Al Nagha
This is amazing in a snowy or foggy morning standing outside.
Livi's Art Release
Very nice! I enjoyed it so relaxing! Your new subscriber, from Romania!
Nathan Drake
You can tell just from this piece that John Cage was heavily influenced by Zen Buddhism.
王沁怡
it does
Mitch Sweat
And satie.
Bruce Free
I realized I misread the title! It is imaginary landscape no. 4 which was created with the I Ching (and his album Music of Changes of course).
Bruce Free
It was actually created using the Yijing (or I Ching) which predates buddhism by many centuries.
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oozrenn
masterpiece
Antoon Van den Braembussche
Sublime piece of music. A haiku, a long haiku in music.
Matt Johnson
Dedicated to the times me and my brother spent together.
Matt Johnson
Sebastián Edu: Yeah.
Sebastián Edu
Did your brother die?
untrust us.
this is beautiful
Eddie
la musica es muy perfecto. Gracias por la bunito artista senior John Cage.
Nathan Hollis
I didn’t know John Cage could write beautiful music
Milo Manson
beautiful, simply beautiful
Daniel Bradbury
This piece is a summer afternoon in the tall grass with a warm breeze. It is fat, lazy rain drops from dark skies. It is the last whisps of a thunderstorm blowing behind a mountain at dawn. It is starlight glinting off thawed and refrozen snow. It is a calm ocean wrapped in tinfoil fog. It is clean, painfully cold air on a high desert morning. It is sleeping on beach beneath a palm tree and breathing salt air.
Daniel Trevino
I imagined a bright, shiny, southern french afternoon. You could see farms for kilometers and kilometers in the distance - single lonely house in the center ontop a large hill. Serenity.
Nation of No One
Some day I will learn to play this
RogerAntony Bennett
This a strange one for John Cage. His 1st recordings (Amores) were issued on a 78rpm album alongside Alan Hovhaness's 1st recordings around 1945-8. Satie was to be a big influence. But where does this dreamy tonal item fit into the scheme of things ? Lou Harrison's shadow perhaps !
RogerAntony Bennett
@Alan Page - we may hear differently. We may interpret what we hear differently. Many people will hear any prepared-piano music as very different from any regularly-tuned piano music.
RogerAntony Bennett
@Alan Page - I suspect most people would question the pitch tuning of Cage's "preparations" - being very different from regular dull stretched octaves. The timbres clearly vary from regular usage, but I wouldn't like to make any dogmatic pronouncement about what sonic realm they exist in. It is remarkable how Cage's harmony sounds similar between different pieces & different pitch regimes. How is it that we can distinguish so clearly Harry Partch's harmony from other microtonalists ?
RogerAntony Bennett
@Mark Davenport - Do we know when Cage 1st encountered Satie's music or ideas ?
Alan Page
@RogerAntony Bennett My point was that in terms of actual compositional style there is very little difference between this and the prepared piano works he was writing at the same time.
RogerAntony Bennett
@Alan Page - there's nothing normal about the tuning of most acoustic pianos (with their stretched octaves). The prepared piano is a much more complex sound world....
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Athy Ász. Sèrhäi
Beautiful
onegathers
Genius.
thefrankonion
This was Cage inspired by Erik Satie. He was 36 years old. This was composed only several years before Cage turned to indeterminacy and chance composed music, such as the The Music of Changes. Such a complete rejection of this work, I wonder what happened, to make John Cage reject all emotion in his music.
BohemianDickhead
WWII
Trond Lossius
@Callous Physical Theatre Also, Johm Cage’s style of writing also continues from Erik Satie. There is a book with the collected writings by Satie. Well worth checking out.
Callous Physical Theatre
As faculty at Black Mountain College in 1948, Cage conducted an Amateur Festival of the Music of Erik Satie. He gave twenty-five half-hour after-dinner concerts performed at times on the grand piano in the dining hall and at times on the upright in his house while the audience sat outside in the grass. The culmination was a performance of Satie’s Ruse of Medusa (Le piège de Mĕduse). This was the period immediately prior to his exploration of Chance operations which was influenced by his reading of Antonin Artaud's Theatre and its Double - which received its first English translation by fellow BMC faculty member M.C. Richards - and, more importantly his immersion into Eastern music and philosophies had led him to texts such as those of Ananda K. Coomaraswamy and the lectures of Dr. D.T. Suzuki at Columbia University.
Óscar A. Montiel
Where did you read that?
David A
@HysteresisRecords I really appreciate your reply. I didn't research deep enough. Thanks for telling me.
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MichailM9
загадочная музыка
victor vidal
muy bueno
Aggoune Assia
beautiful
younebi
ending of this piece of music always makes me cry :'(
Brian
how does it make you feel?
RogerAntony Bennett
@Mark Davenport - The music suggests SATIE most of all. Lou Harrison & John Cage met Alan Hovhaness at the (1945?) premiere of Hovhaness's LOUSADZAK (composed 1944). Both LH & JC were knocked out by AH's new departure. LH wrote a rave review for Virgil Thomson (NY Herald Tribune) & LH wrote several suites heavily influenced by AH. Hovhaness may also have known Satie's music at that time, but JC & VT could have informed him. I respect Cage for not being an avant-garde snob, unlike most of his followers. AH was a major composer & he struggled for recognition - he had his own audience & gained fame in 1955 with Mysterious Mountain (Sym.2). But what is overlooked is Hovhaness's major innovations. Lutoslawski was clueless about Hovhaness's aleatorism of 1944 (in Lousadzak) which is 16 years before WL coined the term "aleatorism".
WL simply got his idea via JC (innocently ?).
The Hovhaness/Cage recordings were 78rpm album(s) issued USA in 1947.
Cage took up the SATIE cause around 1948-58.
Chris N Jones
So beautiful .....
Craig Currie
John cage forever
L8 Nite Vibe
This is basically ASMR. The tingles are insane.
Athy Ász. Sèrhäi
No conocia a este compositor. Es increible su trabajo. Gracias por compartirlo.
LISANA GOMIERO
John Cage 1912-1992 uno dei compositori più importanti del nostro secolo : questo brano si può collocare tra minimalismo di Satie e suggestioni orientali; il compositore infatti si avvicinò al Buddismo zen
Tao
Nelly Hernández ¿y eso qué?
Nelly Hernández
Athy Atilio Adrián Matteucci El compositor ya murió.
CES 2005
Estoy de acuerdo.
notlimah avlis
beautiful
ya channel
beautiful
Rocio
Hello, does anyone knows from wich album belongs this recordind? and who´s the interpreter? sorry my bad english im from argentina :D
Christine Siddall
Rocio This is from Album In a Landscape, piano pieces played by Stephen Dury
pedro henrique Ferreira
Reminds me of the music that plays in the rooms that you save your progress in the old Resident Evil Games
sebastian rivas
genius
Devil in Game
Thank you Civilization V for showing me this masterpiece.
picosdrivethru
@Jeremy L hahaha thats so awesome
Jeremy L
@LuckyTooth John Cage occasionally spawns as a great musician (if you have the DLC). If you choose to create a great work, he creates In A Landscape, and you get to hear a sample of it.
LuckyTooth
@truemiltonic Wait, this music is in civilization v?
truemiltonic
Haha! Was led here too by Civ my friend, what a hidden gem.
Jeffry Tessier
Been listening to this since 2003.
tornike koiava
when i heard it, i felt like 2 year old boy... or maybe 100.
lu623 lu
purely.beautifull.Essential
paola maccaroni
genio
Daniele Virgilio
Does anybody know how and why did Cage choose this title? Are there any bibliographical references about the title? Thank You.
Barbara Smith
The title reminds of Zen Buddhism where you don't observe the landscape as a disconnected entity. You are part of it, in it.
Seashepp
This piece was composed and premiered in Black Mountain, NC, home of the Black Mountain College (definitely worth Googling if you haven't heard of this school)
Tone List
there's a great article by Jonathan Katz called 'John Cage's Queer Silence' which has a few speculations about the titles of Cage's pieces around this period : )
Marcos Maia
Cheguei ate aqui através de um cara que eu quero casar, ele me mandou essa musica como referencia de seu gosto musical e fez muitos elogios a obra do John Cage. Gente ajuda ele aceitar meu pedido de casamento, acho que ele não me levou a serio.
Anhĩkrê
Casaram? Rs
Timothy Sweeney
Cage was very much about sources of music
DANZA DE VENUS
❤
김동현
모든것이 멈춘 시공간속에 있는 느낌
Eunji Park
ㅇㅏ 공감합니다
Lady In between
❤❤❤
jordan peterson on 200 mg diazepam
Relaxing
Claudio Orlandi
Grazie per questa perla
Lincoln Salles
brilhant
M D
dreamy music
Jean-Renaud Viers
Delightful
Unconditionally Guaranteed
This music must be cool a experience after the injection of some dose of morphine.
Sebastián Edu
Hi, Martin!!
Dominoes37
This piece is an existential crisis in the form of music
ALoafOfBagels
I think of it more as an embodiment of the idea of depression. It starts with a motif we hear constantly repeated throughout the piece, and at times it sounds like it's about to resolve but it always comes back. It's like how certain events or occurrences stick in our head, and we try so hard to get over it but we never really do.
Jayo Caine
its too calm and soft for that.
Thomas Fuller
His music isn't as bad as it sounds.
Gabriel Gallardo Alarcon
He is one of the most influential figures of the 20th century. People who say he is bad just bandwagon in that opinion without actually taking the time to really listen to his body of work.
Chris W
This reminds me of the ambient music from Minecraft
thefrankonion
The shadow in the picture is Merce Cunningham.
Matt Johnson
You're right.
QuinKrishna
four Tet made a cool song out of this called 128 harps
Thomas Emden-Weinert
Dem Universum zuhören...
Barbara Smith
Who is the pianist on this recording?
cut
john cage 1.0 --- brian eno 2,0
Yves Tenret
Ecouté en lisant Anne de Fornel...
Milk_before_cereal 69
How can anyone enjoy this, i thought I might of fallen asleep after the first 30 seconds
Night-V
Good, working as intended :) Relaxing music do be like that
Dato Karchava
🙂
Pouinki nator
reminds me a bit of minecraft music
T.T
Here after this was recommended by Inon Zur
sonicsnap117
It makes me think to Erik Satie.
Nathan Drake
It can be categorized as "background" or "easy listening" music like Satie's pieces, but Satie's compositional style has a lot more form and structure. I think what Cage was going for in his earlier works, and in this piece in particular, was to capture the concept of emptiness in Zen Buddhism. You feel a sense of place but one disconnected from any particular interpretation of reality, if that makes any sense.
Jayo Caine
@David A You can keep babbling to yourself, but you can't convince me the sun isn't bright, or the earth isn't round
David A
@Jayo Caine Funny that.... read some of the other comments. Someone thinks it sounds like Debussy. The story obviously continues doesn't it.
Jayo Caine
@David A If it sounds like satie, it's like satie. I don't care if it was written in logic or ableton. If it sounds the same, it sounds the same. End of story
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Nick Green
The Minecraft background music seems to owe a debt to this.
stathissoultanis
I would say postmodernism but really early postmodernism!
smkh
But maybe I can suggest you look into ‘50s French film theory, particularly at Alain Robbe-Grillet and Jean-Luc Godard.
smkh
@stathissoultanis Recently I’m listening to a lot of John Adams. And I don’t know that aspect of Satie’s work so I’ll have to leave it at that.
stathissoultanis
@smkh And yes I don't talk about Beatles and pop staff... I mean Steve Reich, Philip Glass, La Monte Young, Terry Riley, Michael Nyman and generally the 80s and on neoromanticism...
stathissoultanis
@smkh Satie mocks the work of art itself...He says "play this theme 840 times", because he doesn't care about conventions and art goals...So, one aspect of postmodernism is minimalism...Minimalistic repetition rejects the traditional notion of the teleological art work and implies just participation and music that is just sound...The work of art doesn't play a major role at this rate, just like Satie's 840 Vexations... Satie is fin de siecle because he is simple and modal in harmonies, cold and gently (almost static)...If you add the parameter of 840 repetition you discover the predecessor of postmodernism...
smkh
@stathissoultanis and by "the postmodern 60s " please don't talk about the Beatles, or psychedelic rock! I come from the visual arts, so to me the ideas of POMO are best seen in architecture, The historical relativism is fascinating.
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Zedo
Aphex Twin like this song hehehe
Evil Robot Santa Claus 🎁 💣 💥
@Calla CTM True story, I remember that too 😁
Calla CTM
@Evil Robot Santa Claus 🎁 💣 💥 yes it is ,compared to Cage most definitely, Stockhausen said so
Evil Robot Santa Claus 🎁 💣 💥
@Calla CTM Not everything by Aphex Twin is rubbish. In context of current track, try his Kesson Daslef, Icct Hedral, Tree, Matchsticks or IDK :-)
Evil Robot Santa Claus 🎁 💣 💥
Yes, you are right. Aphex Twin - Drukqs album.
skbche
While I was listening I was thinking about Aphex Twin too!
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flying13machine
Brian Eno brought me here
Evil Robot Santa Claus 🎁 💣 💥
How's that? Did he mention JC?
Giorgio Giorgini
Angosciante
Shao-Ting Chang
Debussy
LISANA GOMIERO
@cmvb Anch'io trovo questo brano molto vicino al minimalismo di Satie
cmvb
more like Satie
Félix
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Luca scriabine
Ripetitività a non finire... è un fantasticare su schemi armonici/ melodici molto semplici. Probabilmente, chi apprezza e sopravvaluta questo "compositore" è a digiuno di composizioni musicali di un certo spessore artistico. È una moda del giorno d'oggi, considerare forme artistiche deplorevoli e banali, perle di genialità.
Koestler Ka
Cage semplicemente non è un compositore sopravvalutato!
febi51
Concordo in pieno. Purtroppo l'arte del 900 appare quasi tutta un susseguirsi di provocazioni . Vorrei domandare che tipo di piacere si prova a contemplare un barattolo pieno di cacca.
Luca scriabine
@Aleksandra Grazie e buon week end anche per Te
Aleksandra
@Luca scriabine sei stato gentilissimo, con calma ascolterò tutti i brani Grazie ancora e buon week end
Aleksandra
Hai qualcosa da consigliare? A me personalmente piace a livello di sensazioni, però ammetto di non avere una cultura musicale, soprattutto da un punto di vista tecnico
Allen A
wow this is actually good music. finally. Been listening to tons of classic rock lately to find some new artists to listen to. This is way better.
However the album cover is shit.
Gabriel Tremblay
well you are always welcome to write such amazing song.. and make your own cover to your own taste, maybe adding some excrement to it, like the one in your heart.
abdelkader
Somewhere
Miriam Chavez
Cry
Davidskeeter Skeeter
Why when Cage has the ability to compose this,,Does he indulge in that other Crap,🤮😱?? I’m pretty sure he’s laughing at people that pay to hear his avant-garde effluent,,😂😂😂
Ming Lee
@Real Frank Talk Also "I've stepped in deeper puddles than John Cage" who's the pretentious twit here ?
Ming Lee
@Real Frank Talk Think you completely missed the point of my statement. I wasn't even talking to you either and you come bumbling in defending him like some kind of triggered SJW. Also linking a video to prove a point is being a "pseudo-intellectual" ... jesus fucking christ some people's brains these days can't even tell if theyre functioning properly or not.
Real Frank Talk
@Ming Lee understand and grow from what? The man was into and composed "sounds." He rarely composed music. If you like sound, that's great. Just stop conflating the two by spewing a bunch of pseudo-intellectual mumbo jumbo that a bunch of pretentious twits think is "deep." I've stepped in deeper puddles than John Cage.
Ming Lee
Hopefully this will help you understand and grow from this ignorant statement about Cage's work. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcHnL7aS64Y
nasser wiz
this type of stuff iss so much better then his 'avant garde" stuff
Janusz Ostrowski
The art of pinchbeck/crap. Even John Cage has cheapo episodes, generating by American capitalism: powers of money and celebrities life (?).
k4s4a3
mine craft
Luca scriabine
Repetitiveness to no end ... it is a fantasizing about very simple harmonic / melodic patterns. Probably, those who appreciate and overestimate this "composer" are fasting of musical compositions of a certain artistic depth. It is a fashion of today, considering deplorable and banal artistic forms, pearls of genius.
sebastian cellphone
Alas, being condescending about the creativity of others and not willing to try and understand their approach and the circumstances under which they originated also is a sad fashion of todays self announced art pundits. Combined with the desire to let the world know about their disapproval via the internet.
Jessica Featherstone
I heard this on a classical music radio station and fell in love with it, now I use it to put my daughter to sleep. I love it!
Jeff Dawson
Pierre Boulez said that Cage was not a composer, but an inventor. And I say he was an inventor of perceiving sound in new ways. Maybe an inventor and a philosopher. To me, this is like slowed down Debussy. Peaceful.
Mark Dowding
Actually, it was Schoenberg that said that.
Jeff Dawson
@onegathers You’d think I would know this, given that I read it in Style & Idea many years ago. Thanks for the correction.
onegathers
Actually it was his tutor Schoenberg. But you are spot on everywhere else, our Jeff.
Игорь Дымченко
It's hard to believe that this Masterpiece composed by Cage. Other, experimental, pieces by Him is SO DIFFERENT TO THIS!
Kurisuchiina the Crocodile
also "Dream"
Ernesto Mateo
@Barbara Smith but no
Michael Plautz
What makes this characteristic of other Cage compositions is his employing of chance music for the composition process. However, unlike Music of Changes, he does not employ the I Ching for his chance process. He uses paper imperfections. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_for_Piano_(Cage)
Barbara Smith
Homage to Debussy.