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John Cage Sonata V

Short piece for "prepared piano" - which means nails/pins/caps/etc. are stuck between the strings to give very unusual sound effects. Cage first started doing this while accompanying the Merce Cunningham dance studio, where he got bored with the out-of-tune piano and decided to jazz it up. The piece here is actually repeated twice (it's real short) with difference shots of the strings.

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Tom Petty : LVL 32: VP 4.1: said:

Tom Petty

-7 votes NegativePositive

309 days 9 hours ago...

why did i just watch this? this is stupid

jvk1970 : LVL 1: VP 1: said:

jvk1970

8 votes NegativePositive

309 days 9 hours ago...

nice, but sound quality a bit poor.

^ huh? cage`s prepared keyboards influenced Radiohead, Stereolab, Broadcast, and a whole spectrum of electronic music and jazz.

He`s a modern master, if you have any interest in music.

alberto_balsalm : LVL 42: VP 5: said:

alberto_balsalm

5 votes NegativePositive

309 days 2 hours ago...

i think the whole druqks album by aphex twin was heavily influenced by cage. nice clip btw, would like to see some more.

fraggy : LVL 24: VP 3.3: said:

fraggy

1 votes NegativePositive

307 days 10 hours ago...

magic. love it.

FlavTheApollo : LVL 33: VP 4.2: said:

FlavTheApollo

2 votes NegativePositive

307 days 7 hours ago...

Cage is truly a way-opener being one of the first to write and use a prepared piano, along with Messiaen and George Crumb.
You don`t have to be a classical fanatic to listen and enjoy modern-contemporary music.

Maybe if you have ADD you`ll find this hard to follow...

thatkoreanguy : LVL 25: VP 3.4: said:

thatkoreanguy

-4 votes NegativePositive

305 days 20 hours ago...

cage is weird. who thinks of playing 4 organs to a siren? what the crap is that? I`d be fine without all this "modern" garbage.

IceCream : LVL 40: VP 4.8: said:

IceCream

-1 votes NegativePositive

301 days ago...

oh, john cage..... was anyone else expecting something about johnny cage from mortal kombat?

FlavTheApollo : LVL 33: VP 4.2: said:

FlavTheApollo

-2 votes NegativePositive

300 days 17 hours ago...

^i don`t see any relevance between Sonata and a fighting game character - if you really though you`d see some action - you are either retarded or not far from it.
Btw, in mortal kobat johnny cage was the gayest with his gay sunglases, nobody really liked him, that`s why he got killed in the movie.

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