and it continues again and again and again...

.forum - week three.
I can see where David Harris was going with his piece “compossible,” which was performed by all students of last week’s music tech forum, just, I do not think he wrote it very well. For example, his piece was a self-proclaimed means to exploring new sounds, but the spoken word sections were repeated throughout. I hardly see how you can have a new and repeated sound, no, I am pretty sure that’s an illogical paradox. More to the point, if you are going to write a piece of music in the style of John Cage, write a piece of music in the style of John Cage!

Around this point people start shaking their heads, the vocal types might exclaim, “But this is not music!” Ahhh, but here is the clever part about writing a piece “in the style of John Cage”: Has this changed your idea about what music might be? After forum class were you walking to the bus stop, looking at people riding bicycles, thinking: in a way that bike might be his instrument.

I did, but I got bored of the idea in about the time it takes to eat a tic-tac. If you attended that forum, I am pretty sure you were just waiting for the 46th minute of “compossible” so that you could leave. Music may be many things yes, a valid point you make Harris, Cage, but one thing that I am sure it is not meant to be, is boring. My opinion of the topic is forming thus:

Create the art to say something.
Do not,
Say something to create the art.

Well one thing is for certain. Somewhere John Cage is hiding a smirk, watching the academically and the commercially driven people still doing battle, over a decade after his death.
And it continues...

.sources.

Harris, David. 15.03.07. "There is no sound or noise that isn't music." Nothing of interest presented in Schultz Building, Level 5, University of Adelaide.