Reading Blog #2

In this article is speaks about the effect and the background of Cage , the person who made and influenced 4'33. It speaks about how he played pieces that were 4'33 long and would not play any of the instruments, he would only let the sounds around him be his sound."Let sounds be just sounds.” Gann writes." It was about creativity and letting artists make their own sounds and own music off of random sounds and noises that Cage found interesting and soon became a trend in the world. "Cage had an innocent, almost Boy Scout-like spirit of adventure. As he put it, “Art is a sort of experimental station in which one tries out living.”Cage held that an artist can work as freely with sound as with paint" This Boy scout like interest in new things and adventure is what created the experimentation of new noises and how a music artist should be able to work freely just like a painter gets to work freely with his colors and brush. 4'33 was an open ended piece and did not get much recognition at first and students were questioning why he got paid for that piece, but Cage wasn't in it for the money and he was living just above poverty as well. He did it because he wants to. “I couldn’t be happier than I am in this apartment, with the sounds from Sixth Avenue constantly surprising me, never once repeating themselves,” Cage said late in life".