Every time there is a gap of silence on the radio or television, John Cage gets paid a royalty 4 dollars and 33 cents.
@lucasbuvinic2409 жыл бұрын
But remember that there's no such thing as silence.
@hellomate6399 жыл бұрын
Lucas Buvinic I don't know if you've been to more isolated areas or have been in a soundproofed room.
@CrazyItalian74699 жыл бұрын
Opus 32 You clearly haven't either, because if you have then you would truly understand how silence does not exist. It's exactly what inspired 4'33.
@mic9check9 жыл бұрын
puny74 Complete auditory silence exist, stay on topic.
@connorreilly30799 жыл бұрын
mic9check We can never hear nothing, we will always at least hear our own heartbeats. Even quiet sounds like our blood flowing through our veins is still sound.
@Zombbg46 жыл бұрын
"I love sounds...just as they are" HONNNNK perfect
@ZeranZeran2 жыл бұрын
lmao! Moments like that make me question if god is real, I swear.
@ZeranZeran2 жыл бұрын
2:37
@joebrowser775 Жыл бұрын
I think he heard it too and made the pause intentionally 😂
@jeffryphillipsburns4 ай бұрын
I doubt that was fortuitous, a matter of happenstance.
@JasonDeckmanInTexas13 күн бұрын
In that moment, The Universe quietly cleared its throat.
@katerinakaterin5 жыл бұрын
"I love sounds. Just as they are. And I have no need for them to be anything more than what they are." Warmed my heart.
@f.d.32898 ай бұрын
right? i just left pretty much the exact same comment :)
@jeffryphillipsburns4 ай бұрын
You might want to see a cardiologist about this.
@katerinakaterin4 ай бұрын
@@jeffryphillipsburns bravo
@FrankEnanozaАй бұрын
No, silence is mostly traffic!
@TheP3ru4 жыл бұрын
Transcribed this for a class. Thought I should leave it here for reference. I made some editorial changes. “When I hear what we call music, it seems to be that someone is talking, and talking about his feelings, or talking about his ideas of relationships. But when I hear traffic, the sound of traffic, hear on 6th avenue for instance, I don’t have the feeling that anyone is talking. I have the feeling that sound is acting, and I love the activity of sound. What it does is it gets louder and quieter, and it gets higher and lower, and it gets longer and shorter. It does all of those things. I am completely satisfied with that. I don’t need sound to talk to me.” “We don’t see much difference between time and space. We don’t know where one begins and the other stops. So most of the arts we think of being in time, and most of the arts we think of being in space. Marcel Duchamp, for instance, began thinking of music not as a time-art but as a space-art, and he made a piece called sculpture-musical, which means different sounds coming from different places, producing a sculpture with is sonorous and which remains.” “People expect listening to be more than listening, and so sometimes they speak of inner-listening or the meaning of sound. When I talk about music, it finally comes to mind that I’m talking about sound that doesn’t mean anything, that is not inner, but just outer. These people, who understand that finally say: you mean it’s just sound? Thinking that for something to just be a sound is useless, whereas I love sounds just where they are, and I have no need for them to be anything more than what they are. I don’t want them to be psychologically. I don’t want a sound to pretend it’s a bucket, or that it’s a president, or that it’s in love with another sound. I just want it to be sound. And I’m no so stupid either. There’s a German philosopher, whose well-known, Immanuel Kant, and he said there’s two things that don’t have to mean anything. One is music, and the other is laughter. Don’t have to mean anything, that is, in order to give us very deep pleasure.” “The sound experience, which I prefer to all others, is the experience of silence. This silence, almost everywhere in the world now, is traffic. If you listen to Beethoven or Mozart, you see that they’re always the same. But if you listen to traffic, you see that it’s always different.”
@pishite_na_pochtu Жыл бұрын
Спасибо!
@johnhavelda8 ай бұрын
Many thanks--most useful.
@lescordesduninstrumentquis6305 ай бұрын
Thanks !!!
@FrankEnanozaАй бұрын
From my understanding of Kant, you can still appreciate vocal/lyrical music, music that has a meaning even if that meaning is talking, Beethoven, or Mozart. Whereas, Cage would seemingly prefer silence or mostly traffic over these things. In Kant's Aesthetic Theory, he pointed out "disinterested pleasure" in determining if something is beautiful rather than its utility that makes something beautiful. Cage preferred sound without an additional meaning like if music sounds like people talking. Whereas, I think Kant was open to limited meanings in music with his suggestion of “disinterested pleasure.” To my mind, I think you can appreciate Beethoven's or Mozart's music for how it sounds too rather than hear it as sounds talking to one another. Admittedly, Cage in this quote is difficult to follow in detail because it seems like oddly, he is drawing a meaning of something from something else and/or comparing different categories. Silence is mostly traffic? It sounds metaphorical. Ummm...Okay? I am unclear, but Beethoven and Mozart and Silence (whatever this means in this context) are not close enough in comparison, so Cage does not give a fair representation of the items he is comparing with.
@arquiteq8 жыл бұрын
this is why people sit and listen to rain.
@brokenmiind7 жыл бұрын
yeah...
@abdllaabozhra3496 жыл бұрын
rain .... not traffic !!
@Grizzs5 жыл бұрын
rain actually sounds good though
@blorkpovud15764 жыл бұрын
@@Grizzs I've realised that something doesn't have to sound "good" to appreciate it though. Took me years to realise it though.
@robiszabo9034 жыл бұрын
I can understand listening to rain, but this idiot...
@Clutnuckle13 жыл бұрын
" " - John Cage
@segmentsAndCurves3 жыл бұрын
That's poetic (Unironically)
@aj7bwndnАй бұрын
Unexpress the expressible
@PamelaDrake21513 жыл бұрын
Cage's approach is nice because something is fundamentally childlike about it. A child waking up in the morning loves to hear clatter coming from the kitchen; it's the music of home and has comforting familiarity. There's rhythm all over the place; feet on stairs, trains on tracks. Great authors have sounds and sense perceptions in their work all the time, including James Joyce. There's music in many sounds, including words. I like languages because each language has its own music.
@anumatis9 ай бұрын
Two years ago my mother died. When I'm at my father's house preparing food in the kitchen or cleaning the house, he sleeps in the chair and says that these sounds make him feel that everything is ok.
@Saltedcoil13 жыл бұрын
I long to have Cage's view of the world. He seems so happy and appreciative of everything.
@mikekenny16989 жыл бұрын
Black is an absence of colour but yet we still define it as a colour, so surely the absence of sound could also be considered a sound no?
@TheJoebus6668 жыл бұрын
Good point, I'd not thought of it that way before.
@jackyagerline89225 жыл бұрын
That's exactly the point he was trying to make with 4'33", no matter what, there is always something to hear. :)
@melo31014 жыл бұрын
@@jackyagerline8922 not scientifically though , because , xhere black is a pure absence of light and colour, 4'33" 's silence is made to proof that even the lowest and quietest sounds still exist, matter, and are interesting to pay attention
@johnstormont38214 жыл бұрын
Silence matters
@mcdesignarts3 жыл бұрын
@@jackyagerline8922 and what you hear speaks to you
@buckylove69189 жыл бұрын
mozart was ok bro, but you need to check out traffic
@KryptoChronicutelite8 жыл бұрын
"To me, it looked like a leprechaun to me" lmao
@FINgaming10007 жыл бұрын
Have you listened his newest album called car crash? It's amazing
@mrscoles1006 жыл бұрын
Fingamer™ I know! Mozart’s doin pretty well for 300
@lonelykid76915 жыл бұрын
@KryptoChronicutelite ༼ つ ͡° ͜ʖ ͡° ༽つ "IT COULD BE A CRACKHEAD"
@davidbenedettoWHS5 жыл бұрын
Steve Winwood's band? Yeah, they were pretty good...
@paulthoresen82419 жыл бұрын
I hit pause but the music keeps playing is this a bug?
@theothertonydutch9 жыл бұрын
Paul Thoresen Since John Cage I accepted that my amplifiers hum and I sometimes just find myself listening to that for quite some time.
@SirCamera7 жыл бұрын
(brow raise, followed by appreciative nod and quiet clap)
@dannymusic7 жыл бұрын
You win my long-belated like, sir!
@kentosalazar5 жыл бұрын
Paul Thoresen STOP ✋
@ianmccallum56904 жыл бұрын
this was nice
@jackabrams58598 жыл бұрын
I feel like John Cage would really appreciate electronic music today because it's all about the sounds. I remember in something I read by him once he said he appreciated electronic instruments that tried to make new sounds rather than ones that tried to replicate already existing instruments.
@Rovingrich5557 жыл бұрын
There was plenty of excellent electronic music in Cage's day too. He made some of it.
@VanJR.7 жыл бұрын
A little late, but I don't see as just an appreciation to music but you could easily say this man is the grandfather of this subgenera. In fact, the way sounds are played, in synced and out of synced, provide an ASMR like sound, which gives the person focus on each individual voice.
@aysegulozguler77122 жыл бұрын
most of electronic music people listen to nowadays is not at all all about sounds. there are grooves, harmonies, melodies in it. it's full of narrative
@ZeranZeran2 жыл бұрын
Amen man. He would love Ambient music like Brian Eno, I think.
@Nenko_Music Жыл бұрын
@@aysegulozguler7712 he is probably more speaking of artists like Autechre and such. I mean let's keep it in the experimental realm.
@iamdabeat1115 жыл бұрын
I love listening to him talk. It's like he views the world as an entirely different realm than anyone else and he has an incredible ability to link things like philosophy and music together. Fascinating.
@f.d.32898 ай бұрын
i'd say he's just on the autistic spectrum. every autist has this totally unique world view that humans could learn a lot from if they only learned to listen instead of judging.
@jeffryphillipsburns4 ай бұрын
@@f.d.3289 Some autists drive cahs, some drink in bahs-writers especially.
@Browneyedelf208 жыл бұрын
He seemed sad, when he realized that music is all the same. Look like he found a kind of peace in ambient sounds and I'm glad he could laugh here.
@Soytu198 жыл бұрын
The music is a language that we don't understand, and the fact of not understanding it is what makes it so attractive.
@advaitamaunitva53635 жыл бұрын
How can you not understand music?
@Blitz2895815 жыл бұрын
Hey Julian, you're wrong
@littlefishbigmountain3 жыл бұрын
@@advaitamaunitva5363 Understanding a message and understanding the language it’s articulated in are two very different things
@TheOfficialRaydia10 жыл бұрын
He's so happy I love it
@Saltedcoil13 жыл бұрын
Cage just seems so content with things just as they are, yet he helped change the world of art and music. His love for sounds and his kindness give me hope that someday, I will meet someone like him. One of the greatest musicians/philosophers of this century.
@wairawaira14 жыл бұрын
I really love the way he laughts 1:01 He's just like a little child, that's what i really like from him.
@EdzView9 жыл бұрын
When I feel stressed, lonely, and empty inside, I feel like listening to nothing but silence.153 people may disagree with me but I consider silence as the song made by nature; and I dig it.
@weirdosheep92968 жыл бұрын
+Edz View Was that number decided by chance operations? 153 is oddly specific.
@segmentsAndCurves3 жыл бұрын
@@weirdosheep9296 Oddly specific sometimes being uses for humour, though inner reference is possible
@ZeranZeran2 жыл бұрын
I like your outlook on life and silence. I agree. Love from Noisy california. When I can get out into nature, away from the city, and just sit in quiet.. that is heaven.
@ZeranZeran2 жыл бұрын
@@weirdosheep9296 probably the number of likes or dislikes the video had at the time, but just guessing
@KRAFTWERK2K62 жыл бұрын
Even in silence there are still things you can hear and you never truly stop hearing sounds. It then changes to the high pitch white noise caused by the working nervous system and the low rumble hum of the blood running through your body. This becomes especially evident when you are in a sound-dead or sound absorbed room.
@magicknight132 жыл бұрын
such a kind and genuine and open man who was so appreciative of life. He is such a joy to listen to!
@abcastillox79984 жыл бұрын
the part when kitty came in was the best, that simple meow made me so happy and flushing with so many memories from my childhood and at present. It is priceless, thanks JC you're a genius!
@palteonato12 жыл бұрын
"There are two things that don’t have to mean anything; one is music, the other is laughter" Agree
@jeffryphillipsburns4 ай бұрын
I think Kant means, so to speak, “signify” or “represent”. Music is essentially a non-representational art form, in contradistinction to traditional painting or literature.
@mhermit10 жыл бұрын
I'll make a presumptive statement & say that men who truly, deeply love their wives think that they are most attractive without make-up. I believe this is how Cage felt about sound.
@HeyKing919 жыл бұрын
Excellent comparison!
@andreapepato64738 жыл бұрын
+, (NC, USA) wow this is very clever !
@heythere51677 жыл бұрын
VulgarHNW what makes a woman beautiful?
@jeffryphillipsburns4 ай бұрын
Music is not tarted-up sound, a painted lady. It’s not sound at all. It’s a play of patterns realized in sound.
@nisaniquett9 жыл бұрын
İ loved how he proves what he just said by lauhing for no reason, it made me laugh too :)
@IKB799 жыл бұрын
***** sure it's psychological, but what i think is meant, is that you shouldn't think too much about it.
@ZeranZeran2 жыл бұрын
He has a beautiful soul and he speaks truth.
@siihiro14 жыл бұрын
John Cage The student told the teacher Suzuki: "I am very discouraged, what can I do?" The master replied: "encourage others"
@willyounts33084 жыл бұрын
wow
@djentcommunion24224 жыл бұрын
which is not possible to i think like a person who doesn't know love can't love someone
@littlefishbigmountain3 жыл бұрын
@@djentcommunion2422 A person who doesn’t know love doesn’t have a working concept of it. A person who feels discouraged knows what discouragement feels like and likely encouragement too. I think it’s more like telling a depressed patient that to feel better they must help others find purpose when they’ve yet to do that for themselves yet Then again, that doesn’t sound like the _worst_ idea
@PabzGLRP13 жыл бұрын
His candid outlook on ambient sound is probably one of the most foundational forms of artistic appreciation; appreciation for the art found (or heard) in everyday life, outside of any composite structure. To have exercised this outlook as part of the body of his musical works just goes to show how inspired he was by the world around him.
@amedina21334 жыл бұрын
why the hell did they zoom in so close on his face??
@themelancholia3 жыл бұрын
Im laughing so much at your comment
@justinhiscox80493 жыл бұрын
outside, faces zoom by.
@conorellis56068 жыл бұрын
2:40 = perfection
@otaviorbs7 жыл бұрын
Yup!
@zachindie15 жыл бұрын
Everything that can be heard and is pleasing to someone can be considered music. John Cage works off of this idea for his music. He takes the noises of the everyday world, and even the moments of silence, and uses them to create musical masterpieces. Genius.
@chocojian16 жыл бұрын
"Its hard to believe a year later he made his debut in Mortal Kombat.. " LOL
@n2i2c2k2y14 жыл бұрын
Probably one of the most beautiful ways to describe Silence, truely subtle yet meaningful. Will miss john cage and his friend merce cunningham, and thier laughter !
@oboepercussionist12 жыл бұрын
I think he's a genius! The way he composes I just love!!!
@jairus16 жыл бұрын
This reminds me of my friend with perfect pitch. He studied so much music that classical music got boring as he could predict what would happen next. He only really appreciates indie/noise bands. I'm sure if you take his sense of music/sound to a further extreme, you get a John Cage.
@ZeranZeran2 жыл бұрын
I am the furthest thing from profesionally trained or educated, but very obsessed with music, finding new groups, and this is something I experience I alot. I can hear a song being preimiered on the radio for the first time, and after about 15 seconds I can predict the chords that are coming, the beat, even the lyrics. So many musicians just steal and copy now. Not enough creating organically.
@Sedyon10 күн бұрын
@@ZeranZeran the pop music we hear on the radio is crap, music is much more valuable when you're really interested in it :)
@ZeranZeran10 күн бұрын
@@Sedyon Amen. You're right! I'm so thankful for all the cool indie music scenes I've found. I'm loving George Clanton right now!
@Sedyon10 күн бұрын
@@ZeranZeran I don't know this person, I'll have to take a look. I'm personally interested in music in video games, jazz and some music by lesser-known artists (I'm mostly into video game music to be honest)
@irishelk39 жыл бұрын
Good interview, great guy, he was very Zen.
@dos4gw8214 жыл бұрын
I watch this video every time I get frustrated writing, practicing, or performing music. Listening to Cage talk about his love for sound and laugh about it makes me feel better immediately.
@bangin90968 жыл бұрын
In whole honesty; I was thinking about my "interactive sound environment' project for my degree and I was thinking about all the sounds of traffic that I hear whilst waiting for public transport. The difference weather makes, hearing the transition from no traffic to bird song and back to traffic, etc. I instantly thought of Cage's Silence and this video gives me so many quotes to use in my research, that I am very grateful to jdavidm for posting this beauty, well done sir!!
@NightfallShadow2 жыл бұрын
This man is so beyond genius, It pisses me off I didn't think of making a song with no notes.
@randomguy1826 Жыл бұрын
Same bru
@conceicaogoyeneche5427 Жыл бұрын
Traduzir em Português!!!.
@tseredate13 жыл бұрын
Uma das maiores cabeças do século, pude ouvi-lo em S Paulo, na Bienal de Artes!
@xed75442 ай бұрын
Queria poder ter tido essa oportunidade
@brittaj2 жыл бұрын
thank you so much for uploading this - it's simply a great eye- (or ear-)opener.
@saturated_fart11 жыл бұрын
What's new is he's bringing that to attention, it's not background noise that you "need to filter" anymore, it's the sounds that you're going to listen carefully in a concert hall. The context in which it is inserted is different, and it is important in some way.
@joshuathomas8848 жыл бұрын
Yes yes just wonderful!!!!!!
@Da_Xman3 жыл бұрын
Music, laughter and silence (interesting). Silence has become so difficult to find that it's practically extinct. And, traffic has replaced it as the background soundtrack of our lives subsequent to industrial and high tech living...
@alfogel32983 жыл бұрын
I love cats they never miss when they jump they can spend much time in silence and when they love you they can feel your moods and comfort you when you’re depressed.
@kfdavidson201011 жыл бұрын
I love the background 'sound' in this. It emphasizes his mission. Perfect.
@ilDux8 жыл бұрын
I need to play it many times to extract all of its wisdom.
@brokenmiind7 жыл бұрын
true
@livedogdeadlion93476 жыл бұрын
I just said the exact same thing!
@adjameson11 жыл бұрын
The source is the French documentary "Écoute (Listen)" (1992).
@ObsidianOx-GM2 жыл бұрын
Thank you so much for pointing that out, I've been trying to find the full bit for ages.
@romidcarrera12 жыл бұрын
"I love sounds, just as they are" - Perfect saying Mr. Cage!
@zeroblackstar15 жыл бұрын
One of the most important composers of recent times without a shadow of a doubt... .
@sajiwaji8 жыл бұрын
The video should haave lasted until 4:33
@WitchidWitchid3 жыл бұрын
John Cage was a brilliant man. I agree with his take on sound just for what it is and not trying to play a part (i.e. to be something other than just what it is.). Some have said John Cage was putting down music but I disagree. Cage was talking about sounds in their purest forms of which music is a subset.
@sneychev4 жыл бұрын
An artist respects the silence; it serves as the foundation of creativity.
@joanoshinsky30167 жыл бұрын
He changed how we see and think and his ideas have stood the test of time.
@thetriumphofthethrill24576 жыл бұрын
Talented and innovative artist and an interesting man.
@yeseniajoyas13 жыл бұрын
This explains everything! I've been following Cage, even through his tonal/formal notation phase, and I've gotta say.....this gives good insight into the 4'33 concept. I love it! Duchamp is the shit as well :D
@MargaretHarmer13 жыл бұрын
This is such an amazing video. John Cage has been and is an inspiration for my work as a musician. There is so much humor in his books too! I can only recommend his masterpiece "Silence".
@matthueloose71722 ай бұрын
I never in my life enjoyed the actual sound of traffic, only in films and TV... the idea that traffic can be beautiful, akin to silence or white noise... I feel something there, thank you for nearly convincing me, John Cage. I have some listening to do!
@raulrolonguitar15 жыл бұрын
I was in a concert a few weeks ago, and the orchestra played a work by Cage. It was one chord, played trough one hour, every 4 seconds. You know, it was the most intense music I heard, because I felt asleep, I was bored, I started to think in some things, good things, in conclusion, his music COMMUNICATED me something. Was emotional, a really complete music!
@canobenitez Жыл бұрын
damn, sounds intense, I woul'dnt have paid much though.
@retroblue696963 жыл бұрын
This man was a genius
@Thefatcatinthehat13 жыл бұрын
his laughs put shivers down my back
@EnsembleOffspring13 жыл бұрын
It is so amazing to have this information first hand - from the man himself!
@Jackalopean15 жыл бұрын
This guy's philosophy on sound and music is intense. I don't know if I could handle it. He's way too impressive. A complete genius. Also, a BAMF.
@antosy212 жыл бұрын
When I hear what we call music, it seems to me that someone is talking But when I hear traffic, I dont have the feeling that anyone is talking I don't need someone to talk to me - John Cage This is why I hate music This is why I teach music
@charlotte94116 жыл бұрын
I just love him.
@siihiro14 жыл бұрын
Yes,ATMA..thanks to write here Cage's words. Thank you very much,nice soul.
@CribNotes14 жыл бұрын
What I love about John Cage is that there is nothing revolutionary about what he is saying here. Through his study of music and art over the years, he eventually found himself at the core of ancient Zen/Taoist philosophy.
@f.d.32898 ай бұрын
hehehe, that's where every seeker of knowledge and beauty eventually ends up. tao is the way.
@TheMusicPinkLover919 жыл бұрын
141 people don't understand the meaning of music and sound! This fascinates me in so many ways!
@TheMusicPinkLover919 жыл бұрын
I never said they were the same thing and I agree with you completely. However it frustrates me that someone just says that 4'33'' does not make sense. Music is more than just hearing a musical instrument having different key signatures, time signatures, note values and rests, and all other stuff related to it. Sometimes I wonder how the human being came up with the concept of music. There are lots of historical evidence about it true. But I always wonder what the first thought about creating music was. Was it just hearing sound? Was it someone using different materials to formulate a particular sound? At the end of the day, the concept of music started somewhere and I believe sound had a main part. After all music and sound go hand-in-hand.
@davidsherris81789 жыл бұрын
***** So, in your definition of music harmony is the factory that makes something music, correct? If that is your definition then you're discounting a lot of Eastern music such as the Japanese Biwa. In much Biwa music they use monophony which is music with melody, but no harmony.
@davidsherris81789 жыл бұрын
Elise Xuereb So, does music need harmony to be music?
@IAmisMaster9 жыл бұрын
David Sherris Harmony can arguably mean two notes (frequencies if you will) in comparison to each other but not necessarily played at the same time. The note (frequency) that was previously played still leaves an imprint on the mind before you hear the next note, which lets you judge if that next note is "pleasant" or what have you. Of course that is also called melody, but when you think of the principles that drive melodies like in Biwa they are really interrelated to harmony. I think that's what Bill CZY would say. Under this (admittedly expanded) definition of harmony even repeating a single note is music because it utilizes the same frequency ratios to get a specific note that is "in harmony" with itself (yes! I strung together a logical sentence with my flimsy definition). Basically, he's trying to say why 4'33 is not music...but I'm sure you could make a lot of plausible explanations why not as well as counter-arguments why yes.
@Vordhosbnx9 жыл бұрын
141 don't 141 the meaning of 141,this 141 in so many ways
@dulvab99685 ай бұрын
My favorite composer❤️❤️❤️
@ViTO4DTR12 жыл бұрын
I love his Laughter!!!!
@rcoldman13 жыл бұрын
I never knew him, but I love this man! If ever there was a truly enlightened master, it's John Cage. And yet he made no grand claims about himself whatsoever. He just shared what he loved. And I understand that to know him was to love him.
@caiobernspereira7 жыл бұрын
every word that came out of his mouth was poetry
@cuentapublica700 Жыл бұрын
Silence, wonderfull Mister
@aj06755 жыл бұрын
A man in his own rules of lifestyle admired 🙏
@CBRadioOperator8 жыл бұрын
I have always loved this video.
@eidsongregory57954 жыл бұрын
i return to it repeatedly
@profyost14 жыл бұрын
As a physicist, I have long thought of Cage as the musical equivalent of Einstein for his expansion of the conceptual foundations of music theory, so it is nice to hear him make the space-time connections here. Many can't see past 4:33 (the most controversial composition ever?), but his work is a breath of fresh air to anyone who wants to hear music that doesn't insist on being something else. Much of it is quite beautiful, often in ways no other composer has imagined.
@ayaneyamanaka11 жыл бұрын
You taught me so much Mr.Cage!!
@f.d.32898 ай бұрын
2:37 "Whereas I love sounds... just as they are." *heart melts*
@josephpratt55407 жыл бұрын
does anyone have info on where this interview was. who conducted it. just the kind of thing you would need for citations
@katecoffin19337 жыл бұрын
Joseph Pratt I believe it's a clip from a documentary called Écoute (1992) directed by Miroslav Sebestik. That's all I could find.
@SendyTheEndless9 жыл бұрын
I both agree and disagree with him. I love sound for sound's sake, but I also want to listen to art that has intentions - sound which has been arranged and shaped, synthesized or found sounds, played instruments, patterns, expectation, suprise, boredom, creativity. A playground for the soul. Ambient sound is just one tool in a whole infinity of creative possibilities. I love the sound of traffic, waterfalls, I love the soundtrack in the game Limbo, which mostly consists of filtered ambient noises, drones, and natural foley FX, and when I want to compose, I like to wallow in silence for a few hours - go for a walk and listen to the sounds of nature, of people talking in the background. Then I come home and compose and all hell breaks loose. I cannot live on a diet of 100% ambient sound.
@ramacristna93776 жыл бұрын
Being a composer just the way u are, do what you like, and respect others ideology
@annatravina8928 Жыл бұрын
Well.. Seven years passed, and still I think that what he and you say can exist together. Music doesn't have to mean anything - but it may. It's like life - even nihilistic people seek some sense and structure in everyday life. It's the way of existing P S sorry for any mistakes. English is foreign language for me
@Clutnuckle11 жыл бұрын
what a delightful man
@bigdude861515 жыл бұрын
with so many definitions of music, its hard to decide on one. but the one i go by and encourage is "music is something we enjoy listening to, everything else is noise." So it still is ultimately up to the opinion of the listener.
@lerakelemen18018 жыл бұрын
Please, when you post something of this sort, write at least the source you took it from if you're not in the mood to write the whole information about it (year, location, context of the interview, etc). I don't know about copyright on youtube, but as you're quoting someone's work, you should make reference to them at least in description. sorry
@kinderriegeljunkie51126 жыл бұрын
why is 3:01 so funny to me😂😂 everytime i get to this part i laugh like a donkey on crack
@segmentsAndCurves3 жыл бұрын
There's a common thing between us, I guess since I too laugh.
@Beefforyou11 жыл бұрын
What a clever and well thought out response.
@JayLovesGerard15 жыл бұрын
JOHN CAGE IS A GENIUS. Brilliant.
@zeebpc8 жыл бұрын
this guy would hate to have tinnitus
@algernondammassa86758 жыл бұрын
+hymlen v Tinnitus is terrible. Forgive me if you've heard this story, but Cage went into an anechoic chamber at Harvard in 1951. He described two sounds that he heard while in the chamber, one of which was high-pitched, and the researcher told him that was his nervous system. (The other sound was his blood circulating.)
@FINgaming10007 жыл бұрын
hymlen v tinnitus is also just a sound. You don't have to like it but you can learn to live with it (I have tinnitus btw)
@TheEric12037 жыл бұрын
That would bug the hell out of me to hear my own circulation. I would go crazy standing in one of those rooms
@rishadq5 жыл бұрын
Not directly related to John Cage, but I read an article recently about an anechoic chamber deep underground used to test acoustic qualities of things. Pretty much as you described -- with or without tinnitus. The only sounds you hear are the high-pitched whine of your nervous system against your inner ear, and the sound of your own heartbeat. Most people can only stand it for a little while before getting agitated.
@betoperdido13 жыл бұрын
" ." -Everyone
@Yaalah13 жыл бұрын
What a beautiful man!
@raphaeltruyen156 ай бұрын
this is beautiful
@hellomate6399 жыл бұрын
Here's why John Cage is a hack, physically: His music is very very very very very high entropy. Beethoven's music is very very very very low entropy. If I ever become a physics professor, I'm going to use this as joke every year.
@EDGJZConglomerate14 жыл бұрын
"There are two things that don't have to mean anything: 1. Music and 2. Laughter." Beautiful quote.
@ZeranZeran2 жыл бұрын
SILENCE IS THE MOST POWERFUL ELEMENT OF MUSIC WITHOUT THE DARK, THERE WOULD BE NO LIGHT Yin and Yang is universal, and everywhere. Beautiful video, and beautiful sentiment.
@TheMotherOfBambi9 ай бұрын
i love john cage
@whoever795 ай бұрын
Get a load a this guy
@jimmynitcher9 жыл бұрын
Traffic = chance operations.
@Just2Rusty13 жыл бұрын
Lovely lovely lovely lovely guy.
@imposing-pointer-plaything15 жыл бұрын
Art is something that can be interpreted in multiple ways and has creative drive behind it. Art can be anything, and, in a way, art is in everything.
@AndrewZey10 жыл бұрын
At around 2:30 when Cage describes his lack of need for sounds to have meaning is when he really exposes the fraud that his music is. Music, as all arts, is communicative. Cage simply admits that his "music" is not music. If you look at the history of music, and the biological roots for it in the emotive system - it becomes evident that music is a language of emotional communication. By not distinguishing between "sounds" and "music", Cage is attempting to destroy the concept of music altogether, since it is a redundancy.
@SharloNoir9 жыл бұрын
Andrew Zey you have a point, but I think that is exactly what he is trying to do. but nicely described!
@KashmirPL8 жыл бұрын
one is music and the other is...? love affair?
@wojt4spes8 жыл бұрын
laughter.
@KashmirPL8 жыл бұрын
thanks :)
@JohnBurkemakeitajob11 жыл бұрын
A tool to health, the experience of silence. Truly an art
@Rustymouse5 жыл бұрын
Neil Diamond, Beautiful Noise. Listen. Same minds.