Music taste

[noon]

Ok what the hell . John cages 433
Perhaps I'm just not deep enuff to enjoy what he was going for but I just don't like it.

[Honkey_Kong]

Ok what the hell . John cages 433
Perhaps I'm just not deep enuff to enjoy what he was going for but I just don't like it.

The story to the 433 was John Cage found himself inside a state of the art soundproof room where the sound levels were so immeasurable that they were practically 0db. And you'd expect to hear silence in there, but when John was in there, he could hear his breathing, heartbeat and he kept hearing this buzzing sound that turned out to be the nervous system.

Anyways, so he was of the belief that sound was everywhere even in silence. And so the 433 expresses that idea. It's also different every time you hear it.

But then you get to the next point he was trying to make with that. What is music? And when you get down to it, it's just sound. So really every sound (or lack of sound) is music.

First time I heard this explanation, I was trying to argue it wasn't true. But the more I thought about it, the more I thought John Cage was right. Really started changing my eyes about musics that I didn't really like. Where I could just separate my taste from my ability to appreciate the musicianship of it.