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Cage was influenced by Zen teachings and other post-modern notions such as the obliteration of the dualist subject. Reading his famous debut book Silence, one g
by arketyp 10y ago
Cage was influenced by Zen teachings and other post-modern notions such as the obliteration of the dualist subject. Reading his famous debut book Silence, one gets the impression that his provocations were done almost in a state of exigency, as a means of speeding up a necessary progression. And, as the article makes a point of, music in his case is perhaps best seen as a metonym for the creative process, and perhaps life, at large.
I think it's interesting to engage in Cage's work with the view of Cage as a technologist. Today, our means of synthesizing sound, imagery and even intelligble content I think dwarf those to which Cage was ever exposed. Cage's urgency, however, is as relevant as ever.
- 0xADADA 10y ago> Today, our means of synthesizing sound, imagery and even intelligble content I think dwarf those to which Cage was ever exposed. I think Cage would've been totally unimpressed with our technologic "mastery" of the control of sound. His work revealed that the control of the structure of sound was approaching a cul-de-sac (hence his boredom with Tschaikowsky/Bruckner/Stravinsky) and therefore a very limiting perspective on what is beautiful/emotive or even what it means to be "music".
- arketyp 10y agoI agree, and I was hinting at that dissonance by saying intelligible content. But I also think we find ourselves today in a post-postmodern era. The promise of deconstruction never delivered and the allure of metaphysics and the structures persisted, in the face of it all. So we find ourselves chained in a truamatized relationship where perhaps the only option is to try to rejuvenate a forgotten romance, taking lessons from the excursions.