Second chord sounds in world's longest lasting concert

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[spinestein]

[Cage's avant-garde oeuvre includes works such as the notorious "4'33", a piece comprising four minutes and 33 seconds of total silence, all meticulously notated.]




If this is considered a great example of pioneering music, then my butt is a new type of wind instrument and I can compose a new "masterpiece" by eating a can of pork and beans.

[Freedom_no_exceptions]

US experimental composer John Cage

Experiment failed.

[ErnBatavia]

I've just composed a one chord organ recital which will last 640 years and three months

Is your conductor demanding overtime pay?

[Wolfstar]

Using the same principle, I could put a picture frame around an open window.

Ah, but you could, Miss Marple. All you need is the right agent and some haughty fool to burble incomprehensible adjectives about your work.

Years ago when I still lived in New York, I had occasion to visit the United Nations building while an international art exhibit was on display. One of the paintings was a large canvas painted stark white. There was a small red dot precisely in the center of the canvas. That's it. A big white canvas with a small red dot in the center.

I have no idea who painted it or what it was supposed to represent, but I've also never forgotten it. The thing was beyond stupid, but I'll bet it was worth some ridiculous sum.

[Right Wing Assault]

We set our CD player to 'repeat' and play the 4'33" continuously. We've had it running on one player for 5 or 6 years. The player is actually broken and it's not even plugged in, so it's pretty cheap to keep the tune playing continuously. When we have company over, it makes nice background.

Also, another project of mine has been to play the dial tone over our national phone system for the past many years, to continue until the last standard phone network is gone.

[Borges]

If this is considered a great example of pioneering music, then my butt is a new type of wind instrument and I can compose a new "masterpiece" by eating a can of pork and beans.

Eduard Hanslick described Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto as music that stinks in the ear...

[spinestein]

[Cage was also an avid amateur mycologist and mushroom collector.]


No sh**!

[Wolfstar]

Cage was also an avid amateur mycologist and mushroom collector.

OK somebody clue me in, what's a mycologist? Is that, like, the study of myself? Cool, man.

[spinestein]

LOL!

[Chode]

sound familiar???

Communist Goals (1963)


20. Infiltrate the press. Get control of book-review assignments, editorial writing, policymaking positions.

21. Gain control of key positions in radio, TV, and motion pictures.

22. Continue discrediting American culture by degrading all forms of artistic expression. An American Communist cell was told to "eliminate all good sculpture from parks and buildings, substitute shapeless, awkward and meaningless forms."

23. Control art critics and directors of art museums. "Our plan is to promote ugliness, repulsive, meaningless art."

24. Eliminate all laws governing obscenity by calling them "censorship" and a violation of free speech and free press.

25. Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio, and TV.

26. Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as "normal, natural, healthy."

[Wolfstar]

If this is considered a great example of pioneering music, then my butt is a new type of wind instrument and I can compose a new "masterpiece" by eating a can of pork and beans.

ROFLMAO doesn't cut it as a reply. [snicker]

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Sales were surprisingly good in restaurants and bars that have jukeboxes.

Hmmmm blessed silence. He might be on to something.

[Miss Marple]

Mycology is the study of fungi.

[Right Wing Assault]

A mycologist studies his own colon. Hence, "my" and "colo". They use "g" instead of the "n" since "mycolonist" sounds dumb.

[oneofmany]

I'm planning on playing a Dm on March 9th 2011.

[RightField]

When I was in college I had an LP that was titled "Marcelle Marceau Live." The cover had the best graphics, and yes the whole thing was a blank. How I wished I had kept it. The cover graphics would have been a hoot to share with Freepers. Anyone else ever see it?

[Clemenza]

"Rite of Spring" is my favorite piece of music. I used to play it to irritate my hip-hop and merengue loving next door neighbors (along with Miles Davis's Dark Magus).

[Wolfstar]

LOL! Miss Marple, I like Right Wing Assault's defintion of mycology better.

[Right Wing Assault]

I'm planning on playing a Dm on March 9th 2011.

Damn! Pretty high-brow. Where can I get tickets? Will you release a CD?

[Borges]

You better practice!