Posted on 01/06/2006 4:42:30 PM PST by Borges
Why not?
A few years a go the masterpiece "Lights turning on and off in a empty room" won a hefty monetary prize.
The piece consisted of, you guessed it, lights turning on and off in a empty room.
I can't attend the live performance, so I'm waiting for the 4.8 million disk set.
DEVELOPING.....
I was part of the original orchestra that played this. During recital I kept coming in exactly 2 days too early, and they canned me...Thought I had my big break too...
I've got the first CD (of the 4.8 million set to come). It sounds a lot like 4'33".
"That would be funny.
I just wonder what you would SEE on stage at a performance of Cage's 4'33".
Would it be an empty stage, or would you see an entire orchestra up there following the conductor in a performance of absolutely nothing?"
Don't be silly, it's a piano piece!
Cage also "wrote" a piece called "In C." Another piano "piece" consisting of nothing but hammmerstroke C octaves. After several minutes, people tried leaving the theater only to find speakers in the lobby and those C octaves. Outside the theater and running for several block were more speakers. People were actually running to get away from the performance.
Ah those kookie avante garde ouvre "composers"
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Great can be a relative term.
Oscar Brand was (on occasion) crude rude and vulgar ... but sure sounded good doing it.
It's a shame this performance didn't start 639 years ago and just ending now. Then we could have portraits, sketches and/or photos of all the great composers throughout history pointing and laughing.
Are you sure he's not going for "69"?
How stupid.
Or "72" (that's "69" with 3 spectators)
Ha! Cage's song last 639 years, while Camille's only seem to last that long :)
I believe you are talking "shades of gray."
[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.]
About three years ago we were discussing this type of "art" at the factory where I work, and one of my coworkers suggested that we could create "sculptures" by taking the solidified plastic residue from around the nozzles of our injection molding machines and pretend they represent some abstract concept.
I now have two of these "sculptures" in my home and I tell visitors in my most serious voice that the one on the shelf by the front door is called "The Raping Bed" and the one hanging on the wall is called "American Imperialist".
I have witnessed only two types of reactions and I get them in about equal proportions:
1) "Yeah, I see what the artist intended. How deep!"
2) "What a piece of crap. I could root through the garbage and find better art."
LibWhacker's review: A piece of music whose every chord bores you to death.
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