John Milton Cage Jr. (September 5, 1912 – August 12, 1992) was an American … Read Full Bio ↴John Milton Cage Jr. (September 5, 1912 – August 12, 1992) was an American composer, philosopher, poet, music theorist, artist, printmaker, and amateur mycologist and mushroom collector. A pioneer of chance music, electronic music and non-standard use of musical instruments, Cage was one of the leading figures of the post-war avant-garde. Critics have lauded him as one of the most influential American composers of the 20th century. He was also instrumental in the development of modern dance, mostly through his association with choreographer Merce Cunningham, who was also Cage's romantic partner for most of their lives.
Cage is perhaps best known for his 1952 composition 4′33″, the three movements of which are performed without a single note being played. The content of the composition is meant to be perceived as the sounds of the environment that the listeners hear while it is performed, rather than merely as four minutes and thirty three seconds of silence, and the piece became one of the most controversial compositions of the twentieth century. Another famous creation of Cage's is the prepared piano (a piano with its sound altered by placing various objects in the strings), for which he wrote numerous dance-related works and a few concert pieces, the best known of which is Sonatas and Interludes (1946–48).
His teachers included Henry Cowell (1933) and Arnold Schoenberg (1933–35), both known for their radical innovations in music and coincidentally their shared love of mushrooms, but Cage's major influences lay in various Eastern cultures. Through his studies of Indian philosophy and Zen Buddhism in the late 1940s, Cage came to the idea of chance-controlled music, which he started composing in 1951. The I Ching, an ancient Chinese classic text on changing events, became Cage's standard composition tool for the rest of his life. In a 1957 lecture, Experimental Music, he described music as "a purposeless play" which is "an affirmation of life – not an attempt to bring order out of chaos nor to suggest improvements in creation, but simply a way of waking up to the very life we're living".
Cage is perhaps best known for his 1952 composition 4′33″, the three movements of which are performed without a single note being played. The content of the composition is meant to be perceived as the sounds of the environment that the listeners hear while it is performed, rather than merely as four minutes and thirty three seconds of silence, and the piece became one of the most controversial compositions of the twentieth century. Another famous creation of Cage's is the prepared piano (a piano with its sound altered by placing various objects in the strings), for which he wrote numerous dance-related works and a few concert pieces, the best known of which is Sonatas and Interludes (1946–48).
His teachers included Henry Cowell (1933) and Arnold Schoenberg (1933–35), both known for their radical innovations in music and coincidentally their shared love of mushrooms, but Cage's major influences lay in various Eastern cultures. Through his studies of Indian philosophy and Zen Buddhism in the late 1940s, Cage came to the idea of chance-controlled music, which he started composing in 1951. The I Ching, an ancient Chinese classic text on changing events, became Cage's standard composition tool for the rest of his life. In a 1957 lecture, Experimental Music, he described music as "a purposeless play" which is "an affirmation of life – not an attempt to bring order out of chaos nor to suggest improvements in creation, but simply a way of waking up to the very life we're living".
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@LeoPerkk
Lyrics:
Impact sound
Impact sound
Impact sound
Impact sound
Impact sound
Impact sound
Impact sound
Impact sound
Weird sound
HHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Impact sound
Impact sound
Blender sound
Piano sound
Rubber duck sound
Impact sound
Impact sound
Falling sound
Drinking sound
@madbby8896
Para sa mga module niyo. Mabait kac ako. Grade 10.
Characteristics of chance music that can be deduced from the vedio:
Man-made and doesn't include musical instruments.
Other objects than can be use to create sounds:
-Kitchen materials/tools
-Table
-Door
Module lang kapatid...
@Lee-sd1vx
“millennial humour is so weird and nonsensical, back in my day jokes were well constructed and delivered”
what people were laughing at in 1960:
@stevewynnearts
The presentation was fine in this one
@radominternetuser4161
Salve galera! É o biel
@saraellen2805
@@radominternetuser4161 salve kkkk
@e.l1674
Iae Man.
@Versuffe
They had great taste
@DHANGSHA-303
The audience doesn't realise that they too are being played, that they are one of the instruments. Their reaction and laughter is part of the composition. (As people have already noted below.)
@bjap1563
Cage:
"I'm not locked in here with you!
You're locked in here with me!"
@georgegreenland7573
Bit pretentious mate
@MatmoeLP
@@georgegreenland7573 You British? Cause Brits seem to have that weird thing going on where it's frowned upon to try and sound intellectual