Wednesday, October 28, 2009
John Cage: crazy bastard or crazy genius?
I'll let you be the judge.
Oh, and if you think this is bizarre, you should read up on his piece entitled "As Slow as Possible"
that's currently being performed in a church in Germany. It's slated to take 639 years to play. The performance began in 2001, so it will end in 2640. I wish I were kidding. Cage enthusiasts are some crazy motherfuckers.
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I suppose this is the one piece you really can't imitate with any shred of self-respect. I like it better than Shoenberg, but not nearly as much as I like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyRCdyNb3Eo
4'33'' was a free iTunes download last year, so of course I bit. Well, I went to listen to it... and it only downloaded the first movement! I only got 1'45"! Cheap, iTunes...
It seems at that church that Germany is currently a six-and-a-half-year-long tritone. The most dissonant interval in music. Awesome.
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