| I definitely meant John Cage instead of Philip Glass, for some reason those two share the same headspace if I'm not thinking carefully. I don't think John Cage agonized over 4'33" (I was thinking about making this an elaborate joke, but I haven't the energy. That piece is 4 minutes 33 seconds of silence. It has been performed in public to sophisticated audiences) When Stravinsky's Rites of Spring was first performed publicly it nearly caused a riot. There were arrests. It deeply upset people and was accused of not being music. Penderecki likewise composed much that was aggressively argued was not real music and is featured in several prominent Horror/Thriller kinds of films, Radiohead's Johnny Greenwood was heavily influenced for the score of There Will be Blood (listen and tell me if the sounds are just orchestra noise or real music. Rock music and Jazz music got heavy, heavy pushback from people that this was just not real music and was garbage noise. Your response fits the common pattern "I know people have said the same things in the past and were wrong but THIS TIME the same argument is correct" >mindless button clicking Sounds like all electronic music since its inception :) Point is, there has always been garbage music and there have always been people criticizing the new thing as the demise of real art. Yawn. |