Firstly, Music News : Music News (More) || RSS Sons & DaughtersPolly ScattergoodGallon DrunkHell is for HeroesUndercutJay Jay PitoletELFGeorge PringleThe Bookhouse BoysSam IsaacThis week my column is something a little different, I've moved out of Indie Rock and it's a description of a demonstration of John Cage's Prepared Piano I saw during the Melbourne International Arts Festival, read it he...
Firstly, Music News : Music News (More) || RSS Sons & DaughtersPolly ScattergoodGallon DrunkHell is for HeroesUndercutJay Jay PitoletELFGeorge PringleThe Bookhouse BoysSam IsaacThis week my column is something a little different, I've moved out of Indie Rock and it's a description of a demonstration of John Cage's Prepared Piano I saw during the Melbourne International Arts Festival, read it he...
WFMU's Beware of Blog has posted this old clip of Avante Garde coposer John Cage performing his piece "Water Walk" on the game show "I've Got a Secret." Enjoy!
This is the universe in a nutshell. Or at least Ireland in a nutshell.More than HPSCHD or any of the Europera performances, this is a recording that succeeds in evoking what John Cage was trying to demonstrate on an aesthetic level...something about the variety of sounds in the world and their occasional poignant characteristics transcending traditional musical sensibilities. Unlike other sound...
SeeqPod - Playable SearchYou may wonder why I'm having you listen to 4 minutes and 33 seconds of silence. Perhaps you'll notice the clicking of mice around you as you work, the hum of the AC, your co-worker chewing loudly. I so this to illustrate the rythyms of nature, of the mundane. John Cage actually played (or rather didn't play) this piece in concert. He didn't explain himself, and it ...
WFMU's Beware of Blog has posted this old clip of Avante Garde coposer John Cage performing his piece "Water Walk" on the game show "I've Got a Secret." Enjoy!
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