John Cage's Wacky Music! #1

in #music7 years ago

According to Cage, his art required heroic powers of renunciation - renunciation of education and theory of music. Im going through his scores for a class and thought I'd share one of his wacky compositions.

John Cage (Wiki)(1912-1992)
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Here's John Cage's Solo for Voice 52. The notation is below the video. The directions for interpreting the score is at the beginning. Enjoy!

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Its close to finals and life is getting hectic. I want to try putting up more of these this week.

Ciao!