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Honestly, I think he is kind of a fraud musically.
by graphtradr 5y ago
Honestly, I think he is kind of a fraud musically.
- deertick1 5y agoReally? I mean he has got compositional chops, but not nearly enough to be considered a great composer. Where I find Cage to be a genius is his mastery of generating unique sonic elements. Like his prepared piano peices, as a peice of music, aren't great : but the individual sounds he coaxes out of the piano are awesome. His works are incredibly fertile grounds for sampling, and I draw a lot of inspiration from his use of texture as a compositional theme. Like his pieces about cacti : can't remember what its called - but the whole thing is just like goopy, bubbly, drippy sounds. Very interesting stuff to me.
- memetomancer 5y agoHonestly, can you support that nasty claim without revealing that you have only a vague understanding that he did some wacky thing called 4'33"? Frankly, your lack of citation and supportive reasoning does more to validate the Dunning-Kreuger effect than it does to criticize Cage.
- dang 5y agoPlease don't respond to a bad comment by breaking the site guidelines yourself, and certainly not by crossing into personal attack. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- dang 5y ago"Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something." https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html