[silence] Messiaen & Cage

[Carl Heppenstall]

Ralph, Very interesting.  

Generally, the organization and nature of the organization probably interests me more than a purposeful lack of organization, but in the end, however the music is created, it must reflect our chaotic or "un-conscious" interaction with the natural stillness of the universe for me to enjoy it.  Often we get so caught up in the technical mastery of what is getting created and we lose one of the purposes of art - creating music that can reach the soul.  

Cage did his work at getting us to listen to the natural stillness and the space and things interacting with and underlying our consciousness, but once that mission was accomplished, why do we need to continue to create similar art that merely points to the thing but is not reflective of the thing?

Best Regards,
Carl

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Ralph Lichtensteiger<mailto:lichtconlon@t-online.de> 
  To: silence@list.mail.virginia.edu<mailto:silence@list.mail.virginia.edu> 
  Sent: Sunday, April 01, 2007 11:54 PM
  Subject: [silence] Messiaen & Cage


  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://del.icio.us/lichtconlon>
  http://time4time.blogspot.com/<http://time4time.blogspot.com/>
  http://www.lichtensteiger.de/<http://www.lichtensteiger.de/music_room.html>



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