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John Cage performing "Water Walk" in January, 1960 on the popular TV show I've Got A Secret.via WFMU: http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/... the time, Cage was teaching Experimental Composition at New York City's New School. Eight years beyond 4:33, he was (as our smoking MC informs us) the most controversial figure in the musical world at that time. His first performance on national television was originally scored to include five radios, but a union dispute on the CBS set prevented any of the radios from being plugged in to the wall. Cage gleefully smacks and tosses the radios instead of turning them on and off.While treating Cage as something of a freak, the show also treats him fairly reverentially, cancelling the regular game show format to allow Cage the chance to perform his entire piece. "

Channel: Music
Uploaded: December 31, 1969 at 4:59 pm
Author: holotone

Length: 09:22
Rating: 4.80
Views: 190190

Tags: experimental  johncage  music  noise  

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scriabinwasmydad (December 31, 1969 at 4:59 pm)
This is the greatest living proof of Cage's amazing original artistry and a mind that comes once in a century!
marmack123 (December 31, 1969 at 4:59 pm)
i think thats a very valid point, and although cage would not call himself a conseptual artist, he would probably be inclined to agree with you
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victotronics (December 31, 1969 at 4:59 pm)
Oh for the days when this would be shown in prime time television.
rjm1009 (December 31, 1969 at 4:59 pm)
no one cares what your opinion is...Cage saw himself as a musician... therefore he is. the reason you claim the music is conceptual is because it is percussive and therefore visually stimulating
ambientgreg (December 31, 1969 at 4:59 pm)
Awesome! The pushed radio precludes the smashed guitar(townshend OR Hendrix) by at least a few years...beautiful!
sapfirewand (December 31, 1969 at 4:59 pm)
Music will become as radical as the world allows it to be. In this case, it's gone a long, long way...
holokinesis (December 31, 1969 at 4:59 pm)
I'm not sure about it. I wonder if it's the impulse of communicate that makes one work on artworks and then lock it in a drawer. I must say that some create, or should I say, act even if there's no audience. I'm not saying that this relates to every artist, I'm just saying that this can relate to some artists. And I say that because it does relate to some of the things I create.
TVFREAKMAN (December 31, 1969 at 4:59 pm)
Here's my opinion on CageWhat Cage performed was a conceptual art piece not a musical piece, because the audience's reaction to it was both hearing and seeing.A musical piece's results are alomost 90 per cent hearing. Sure we see the performer or the band with the instruments but the effect is not from the way they play but the sounds that some from how they play.Therefore in my opinion Cage is more of a conceptual artist than a musician.And a very original one at that!
bensparasite (December 31, 1969 at 4:59 pm)
the first chuckle from the audience sounded like it could have been included in the composition

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