FeralCats

That speech is hilarious. Take any sarcastic joke out of context and it sounds stupid.

Umm, I only read through the first 8 pages before posting this, so I may be repeating something obvious..but the point of 4'33 isn't that everything IS music..it's just that anything can be considered music once you place it in the frame. It's just what Duchamp did with his Urinal picture..you wouldn't call a Urinal art, but once you put it in a frame and in an art gallery, what else can you call it? (Bad art, maybe, but it's still art). The same with 4'33..anything that happens during that piece of time becomes music just because it's in a figurative 'frame' in when music should occur. Essentially, it's only music when you choose to call it so, in which case Cage himself says that 4'33 is not music or is music, depending on how you want to look at it. Of course, the same applies to Bach, and even Rach. I'll also add that I find Cage's notoriety to be overplayed..I find loads of melody in his work and can find several places I can dance to it.

Haven't posted since my first piece, and haven't written much, either. Family problems, and what not. Nonetheless, I did recently make this piece, and I like it. It's longer, and completley finished..I'm actually rather proud of it. The only things I doubt are perhaps it's repetition and it's flow. Thanks in advance! metallicsnakedance.mid

Thanks so much! I definatley understand what you mean-I'll get to work on that pronto. Thanks muchly!

Hi, I'm FeralCats, I'm new. :-p I'm 14 years old. I didn't exactly grow up in a musical family, and I just started playing piano of my own volition about 8 months ago. I started mainly because I wanted to be a composer. (I hope that's not too late a start..) Anyway, I've been writing this piece. It's curious. I want to make it longer, but I think it's sort of finished already. (Is there a 'work in progress' forum here? Maybe it would fit better there.) Anyway, this is the first thing I've written besides other melodic fragments, and I'm such a bad pianist I can barely play it myself. And this thing is simple.Te.MID goodworkinprogress.mid