John Cage

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Alannah Marie

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@michaelchrist5356 2 ай бұрын

I met John after one of his performances at Knox college in Galesburg. I shook his hand ,he never said a word.

@AlannahMarie 2 ай бұрын

That’s amazing

@leandrotibirica8761 2 ай бұрын

he was performing 4'33

@AlannahMarie 2 ай бұрын

Naturally

@jayumble8390 2 ай бұрын

Alannah, you are such a delight, beautiful and knowledgable! This is fantastic! Thank you!!

@AlannahMarie 2 ай бұрын

Thank you for your uplifting comment 🙂

@eschiedler 2 ай бұрын

I was at Stanford when they celebrated John Cage's 80th Birthday in 1992, soon before his death. They had musicians playing throughout the Music School Building and also had special performances in theaters. It was a wide variety and we watched Cage play bongos!

@Kelpy 2 ай бұрын

thank you for mentioning this! he lectured for a week, or was it two? I lived nearby and had just been laid off, I went to every lecture with my dear friend;, just before he died, John gave me a great deal of help with a major art project, I spoke with him a couple of times, he even gave me his phone number, and I called him in New York. he helped me appreciate Yoko Ono, too!

@AlannahMarie 2 ай бұрын

That’s amazing

@deadlysquad13 2 ай бұрын

Have been following your channel for quite some time, really fond of the topics you choose for videos! Especially like when you reflect on material you present in a more improvisational manner. I suppose I was aligned mentally with John Cage far before I have discovered his works: my music teacher has always said how you should listen to music and experiment with it / interpret in different ways to understand it better. Only after applying these principles I understood some of the classical composers. Before, when listening to them, they didn't make sense - only after tackling their pieces for some time I noticed focal points of their works. At one moment when returning from my lessons I was so sensitive to any sound that a chaos of a street mixed with engine sounds and rumbling of the car I was riding in transformed into some kind of composition. It lacked rhythm and harmony in traditional sense but it still was mesmerizing to me because my heart was open to any discovery at the moment. After this experience I am convinced that everything is music and John Cage only approves it more showing us that nothing is music too.

@AlannahMarie 2 ай бұрын

Thank you for your lovely informative comment. I agree with you about hearing music in everything. I sometimes enjoy a sound just for the sound, and I agree, this doesn’t need to be traditionally ‘musical’.

@mediapathic 2 ай бұрын

@@AlannahMarie This idea can also be applied productively to the idea of sampling, especially as it's used in Industrial and early dance music. A sound taken out of context, forced into becoming a musical element by dint of the context it's perceived in.

@AlannahMarie 2 ай бұрын

Yes good point! Context and relativity matters 😃

@kzucker1000 2 ай бұрын

This is excellent.

@mosstet 2 ай бұрын

Highly recommend listening to the conversation between Morton Feldman and John. It's on youtube. Really gives a sense of John's lightness of being and their humour and interests. Beautiful conversation i'm glad was recorded.

@MikeFuller-d4d 2 ай бұрын

John Cage ( 1912 - 1992 ) American composer, music theorist, artist, and philosopher.

@mediapathic 2 ай бұрын

I do like hearing about Cage from the perspective of someone who is an actual composer. I appreciate the perspective of someone who has certain practical experiences here that I don't. This is true of all your videos, actually, but it really comes out when you talk about artists I am conversant with like Cage. I appreciate your work, as always.

@AlannahMarie 2 ай бұрын

@mediapathic Thank you, that’s a lovely comment 🙏

@NovicebutPassionate 2 ай бұрын

I may be wrong, but your comment ("hearing about Cage from the perspective of someone who is an actual composer") seems to assume that Cage was not a composer, or at least not an actual one. If you don't mind me asking, (1) what are your criteria for the class of people you refer to as 'actual composer,' and (2) what is your reason for excluding Cage from that class? Liking to hear about Cage from the perspective of someone who is a composer is one thing, liking to hear about him from the perspective of someone who is an actual composer another. Would you need to hear about, say, Beethoven, from the perspective of someone who is an actual composer? Thank you.

@AlannahMarie 2 ай бұрын

@Novicebutpassionate I think they just meant as opposed to a musicologist. No one is claiming Cage isn’t a composer.

@mediapathic 2 ай бұрын

@@NovicebutPassionate No, no, you misunderstand. Cage was definitely a composer. I was saying that I appreciate that Alannah, who has experience as a composer, can teach things about Cage to me, who is not in any meaningful way a composer, but who already knows a bit about Cage.

@manuelbirdaktiloyaagit 2 ай бұрын

thank you, great video

@Χρήστος-φ7ω Ай бұрын

Great video and also another time you maybe can do George Crumb if you know about him propably, he is another type of composer who is in like the same phase as him to say that he produce type of music like this so it would be great if you do a video about him another time.

@mikekapuffty6110 2 ай бұрын

I would have liked to watch this in full, but the editing makes me seasick. Could you keep the camera on yourself without cutting to closeups every half second?

@AlannahMarie 2 ай бұрын

If enough people complain about it yes. Others prefer it because it adds emphasis to words and makes more complex statements more accessible, so I’m in a bit of a catch-22 here.

@TimSheehan 2 ай бұрын

@@AlannahMarieI think that narration wise you edited everything together (splicing takes/removing gaps) very well, but the jump cuts are a bit distracting visually, especially when they add or remove large black bars around the edge of the frame. I'd also note that your mic is picking up sounds when you bump the desk/stand and might need a pop filter, but this was an otherwise excellent and informative video

@pierfrancescopeperoni 2 ай бұрын

Do deaf people, especially deaf from birth, experience silence? Or maybe they have noisy thoughts? Or maybe they can also hear their own body? I don't know how it works.

@AlannahMarie 2 ай бұрын

It’s an interesting point you make. I think the point John Cage makes is that silence does not exist in and of itself. If, say, a human removed their ability to hear everything around them, then they could in theory experience no sound (audibly anyway… maybe?), but that does not mean that the world around them would stop vibrating. They’d just stop hearing it. They’d probably feel it though I imagine.