This number piece has a lot of shifting moods; at times there are long sustained tones (sometimes with sustained percussion) that I found restful. These usually came to an end with the piano which seemed to be doing something different from the rest of the instruments. When the piano dominated it pulled the piece into a different sphere, thus the piece seemed to move back and forth between the sections with sustained tones and the sections where the piano sets a more aggressive feeling. I liked that sense of moving from one sphere, or region, to another; it gave the piece an overall sense of motion.
Cage's "Number Pieces" are among his most poetic and mysterious works. The "time bracket" technique proved to be a very enduring idea, as it was used in about 40 works composed in the last years of Cage's life. The indeterminacy is still there; each performance of these pieces will sound different due to the unpredictable placement of the notes in the various parts. Additionally, in this work the percussion part will always sound different, since the performer can select the various percussion instruments used. The player numbers the instruments in any way then plays them in accordance with the numbers in the score.
I'm assuming Cage wrote the piano gestures to be played i.e. the single notes, chords, striking techniques ( Stephen Drury wrote that Cage was partial to chords in which one note of the chord was played staccatto)
Celesta sound was "celestial" until Bartok made it "scary". A sound can be "celestial" or "scary". But cinema habits makes us believe that a sound signify one only thing, like a word in a dictionnary.. It's false. There is many sense you can give to a sound. Unorganized pitches can calm your mind in a forest. Don't give up listening that kind of music. It is the way out of the matrix
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This is a beautiful work
This number piece has a lot of shifting moods; at times there are long sustained tones (sometimes with sustained percussion) that I found restful. These usually came to an end with the piano which seemed to be doing something different from the rest of the instruments. When the piano dominated it pulled the piece into a different sphere, thus the piece seemed to move back and forth between the sections with sustained tones and the sections where the piano sets a more aggressive feeling. I liked that sense of moving from one sphere, or region, to another; it gave the piece an overall sense of motion.
Cage's "Number Pieces" are among his most poetic and mysterious works. The "time bracket" technique proved to be a very enduring idea, as it was used in about 40 works composed in the last years of Cage's life. The indeterminacy is still there; each performance of these pieces will sound different due to the unpredictable placement of the notes in the various parts. Additionally, in this work the percussion part will always sound different, since the performer can select the various percussion instruments used. The player numbers the instruments in any way then plays them in accordance with the numbers in the score.
I'm assuming Cage wrote the piano gestures to be played i.e. the single notes, chords, striking techniques ( Stephen Drury wrote that Cage was partial to chords in which one note of the chord was played staccatto)
Dieses einzigartige und anspruchsvolle Meisterwerk braucht die tiefste Virtuosität von allen Solisten. Wahrlich spannende Aufführung!
Virtuosity or attention/intention?
This reminds me of the part in "L'Eclisse" by Antonioni where the lights go on...
Wow
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Little too grindhouse for me. I need some relief and brightness. Gets on my nerves ala the new French school.
hi
Ecouté en lisant Anne de Fournel.
What one does not hear is the music in JOHN CAGE's compositions.
I hear a lot of music! About twenty minutes of it, in fact.
They need to use this piece in a horror film...
Celesta sound was "celestial" until Bartok made it "scary". A sound can be "celestial" or "scary". But cinema habits makes us believe that a sound signify one only thing, like a word in a dictionnary.. It's false. There is many sense you can give to a sound. Unorganized pitches can calm your mind in a forest. Don't give up listening that kind of music. It is the way out of the matrix