Sometimes a chain of ugly sounds is just a chain of ugly sounds. You would love the "music" of John Cage. He has one piece I can actually play. It's called 4' 33". The pianist, with music, sits at the piano and plays NOTHING for 4 minutes and 33 seconds. It's the ambient sound of the audience that's the "music:" the coughs, the "what's going on?" etc.
I only play a section of that in class. It's fun. Is it profound? I doubt it. It derives from Duchamp's Fountain, the use of ready-made objects. How do you like it?
This is the beginning of the stress upon new ideas, rather than traditional form and content. I knew you'd love it. :)
Cage's 4'33" belongs in Duchamp's Fountain. Of course the fountain needs to be hooked up and flushed.
These are the people who give art a bad name. Scrap metal or construction waste thrown together is not art. It is scrap metal and nothing more. Music with no notes, or anything remotly like Schoenberg is not music. It's just noise. And yet these are the things that NEA funds get spent on while good artists can't get a sponsoirship at all. It infuriates me.
Art has been so abused that anyone who identifies themselves as an "artist" immediately gets classed as pretentious leftist scum until they prove otherwise.