John Milton Cage Jr. (1912 – 1992) was an American composer, music theorist, writer, and artist. He was pioneer of indeterminacy in music, electroacoustic music, and non-standard use of musical instruments. Critics have lauded him as one of the most influential American composers of the 20th century.
Cage was also a pioneer of the prepared piano (a piano with its sound altered by objects placed between or on its strings or hammers), for which he wrote numerous dance-related works and a few concert pieces. The best known of these is Sonatas and Interludes (1946–48). In a 1957 lecture, Experimental Music, he described music as "a purposeless play" which is "an affirmation of life – not an attempt to bring order out of chaos nor to suggest improvements in creation, but simply a way of waking up to the very life we're living". Source: John Cage. (n.d.). Retrieved January 7, 2015, from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Cage
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Yes, John Cage didn't play anything! The score instructs the preformers to no play their instruments during the entire duration of the piece. The title "4'33" refers to the total length of its first public performance. Cage stated in an interview in 1982 that 4'33 is his most important work. He composed it in 1952 and it resembles his idea that any sounds constitute music. The audience listen to the sounds of the environment while the piece is preformed.
Haiku is a form of Japanese poetry. Traditionally, a haiku has 3 main characteristics.
Examples of haikus : The best-known Japanese haiku is Basho's "old pond":
古池や蛙飛び込む水の音ふるいけやかわずとびこむみずのおと This separates into ons as: fu-ru-i-ke ya (5)ka-wa-zu to-bi-ko-mu (7)mi-zu no o-to (5) Translated: old pond . . .a frog leaps in water’s sound An alternate translation, which preserves the syllable counts in English at the cost of taking greater liberty with the sense: at the age old ponda frog leaps into watera deep resonance Source: Haiku. (n.d.). Retrieved October 27, 2014, from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haiku |