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Hundreds assemble as John Cage piece changes chord for the first time in 7 years
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| 09/05/2020
| Christen McCurdy
Posted on 09/07/2020 8:25:03 PM PDT by BenLurkin
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To: a fool in paradise
LOL
/not sorry I clicked this thread
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posted on
09/07/2020 10:35:55 PM PDT
by
Salamander
(The left screams out in pain as they stab you.)
To: M1903A1
It made me miss the days of modem handshakes
/not
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posted on
09/07/2020 10:36:28 PM PDT
by
Salamander
(The left screams out in pain as they stab you.)
To: BenLurkin
What is the new chord!
What was the old chord!
We have to know!
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posted on
09/07/2020 10:38:02 PM PDT
by
right way right
(May we remain sober over mere men, for God really is our only true hope.)
To: Swordmaker
64
posted on
09/07/2020 10:38:29 PM PDT
by
Salamander
(The left screams out in pain as they stab you.)
To: Getready
65
posted on
09/07/2020 10:40:38 PM PDT
by
Salamander
(The left screams out in pain as they stab you.)
To: BenLurkin
Ughhhhh... Such stupid, pointless, worthless decadence; a mockery of art and beauty. And it’s disgusting that a church is using its space meant for worshipping God on this meaninglessness.
To: Swordmaker
Brilliant! Couldn’t have said it better myself.
To: Fiji Hill
Oddly enough some really good music is coming out of video games.
Baba Yetu from Civilization IV is a good example.
The Lord's Prayer, in Swahili sung by the Soweto Gospel Choir with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Such beauty. And it will get stuck in your head.
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posted on
09/07/2020 10:58:25 PM PDT
by
Harmless Teddy Bear
(And lead us not into hysteria, but deliver us from the handwashers. Amen!)
To: BenLurkin
Slap paint on a canvas. Toss a few notes and chords with endless repetition on sheet music. Modern (minimalist) music imitates modern art. The emperor has no clothes.
To: BenLurkin
When I was in a certain NYC conservatory in the 80s I went to Schirmers Music and found a copy of the sheet music for “4:33.” It was literally a cover reading “John Cage” and underneath “4:33” . There was nothing inside. I believe it cost $15 bucks at the time.
To: Chengdu54
I saw a Cage performance back around 1973 in Ann Arbor. Damned if I can recall any of it. Is it already over? Or are you writing this as a brief (half-century-long) intermission comes to an end?
Regards,
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posted on
09/07/2020 11:05:08 PM PDT
by
alexander_busek
(Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
To: Salamander
...In A Gadda Da Vida
I did a 72 minute remix of IAGDV once.
72
posted on
09/07/2020 11:08:30 PM PDT
by
ADemocratNoMore
(The Fourth Estate is now the Fifth Column)
To: ADemocratNoMore
I beg of you, please do not share it with me.
:D
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posted on
09/07/2020 11:12:37 PM PDT
by
Salamander
(The left screams out in pain as they stab you.)
To: BenLurkin
>639 years
639 years ?
Meh !
Anybody can download a copy of Paulstretch and load any .wav file they want. The hyperstretch mode allows you to stretch up to 1,000,000,000,000,000,000 times. That’s 1,902,587,519 years for a one minute song.
http://hypermammut.sourceforge.net/paulstretch/
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posted on
09/07/2020 11:17:15 PM PDT
by
ADemocratNoMore
(The Fourth Estate is now the Fifth Column)
To: jmacusa; MinuteGal
“I didn’t really get Cage though.”
I’m not sure hardly anyone did, lol. I suspect he had a fan club based more on his rather innovative musical schemes rather than the actual product that was produced, and amongst those who wanted to be part of the “in” crowd, claiming to understand what Cage was up to. I will say he was flamboyant. Kind of the P.T. Barnum of avant garde music.
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posted on
09/08/2020 2:03:37 AM PDT
by
flaglady47
(Donald Trump, President for Life (heh, heh))
To: alexander_busek
Is it already over? Or are you writing this as a brief (half-century-long) intermission comes to an end? You misunderstand. . . It’s not an intermission, it’s a rest; a period of instrumental silence in the performance. It’s written in the score as: 47 yrs, 4’ 33” and then a new chord in a diminished 7th. Very dramatic.
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posted on
09/08/2020 2:05:42 AM PDT
by
Swordmaker
(My pistol self-identifies as an iPad, so you must accept it in gun-free zones, you hoplophobe bigot1)
To: BenLurkin
I guess I have to be the one to ask the question. Why?
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posted on
09/08/2020 3:00:59 AM PDT
by
eartick
(Stupidity is expecting the government that broke itself to go out and fix itself. Texan for TEXIT!)
To: BenLurkin
I would imagine that there were snails dancing in the aisles.
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posted on
09/08/2020 4:52:14 AM PDT
by
drSteve78
(Je suis deplorable. WE'RE NOT GOING TO TAKE IT ANYMORE)
To: BenLurkin
Seriously, people have run out of things to do.
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posted on
09/08/2020 5:18:21 AM PDT
by
Sequoyah101
(We are governed by the consent of the governed and we are fools for allowing it.)
To: BenLurkin
Furniture music. Eric Satie would be proud.
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posted on
09/08/2020 6:12:24 AM PDT
by
hinckley buzzard
(Power is More often surrendered than seized.p.)
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