Prof. Dr. Herzogenrath
The Future of Avantgarde-Music
Blaha, Malte C.
Matrikelnummer 7509502
Listening report –
John Cage
Instead of enjoying the scope of classical and planned Music, Cage
recognized a variety of sounds to be ultimately ‘be music’. John Cage is like
an action-like ‘Jackson Pollock’ in the world of music. It appears as if he is
kind of ‘tuning-in’. Almost everything seems unplanned, yet, Cage illustrates
his music in a way, in which something might emerge without the need to plan
the actual music ahead.
It is remarkable that in the musical works of Cage, there is almost no
silence, or in turn, absence of sound. Therefore, the listener receives the
idea that silence or the absence of sound means for Cage that there is no life
anymore. This comes as there is no real ‘absence of sounds’ throughout his
entire musical works. Furthermore, the sounds of Cage sound very exotic and
never heard before, kind of out of this world.
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