[silence] Messiaen & Cage

[Ralph Lichtensteiger]

Dear silencers,
thank you all for your great comments about Messiaen & Cage.
They are very helpful and inciting for me. Thanks a lot !
The antagonism (antithesis) Cage / Messiaen opens a wide range of  
interesting thoughts.

"Natural sounds suggest music to us, but are not yet themselves  
music… Tonal elements become music only by virtue of their being  
organized, and that such organization presupposes a conscious human  
act." — Igor Stravinsky: Poetics of Music, Harvard University Press,  
1942, S. 23

in opposition to Cage's "anti-organization" of sound.

Kind regards,
ralph lichtensteiger
http://del.icio.us/lichtconlon
http://time4time.blogspot.com/
http://www.lichtensteiger.de/

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