FPA 140 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Anechoic Chamber, Good Music, Microstructure
9 Jul 2020
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Musical ideologies: throughout history, ideologies will often bring about counter-ideologies, e. g. opposition to romanticism started the ultra-rationalism movement led by boulez and. In the same way, john cage is the founder of the anti-rationalist movement. In the anti-rationalist movement, sounds could just be : cage was the champion of intuition, he wanted to create new works of art that hadn"t previously existed. Led to a type of anti-academic/anti-art music that could be called the new tonality : cage"s concepts of rhythm and time have influenced countless composers, his exploration of noise paved the way for electroacoustic music. In second construction, composed a year later, cage continued to use durational patterns: shows that the microstructure mirror larger, formal macrostructures. Is scored for four players performing on fourteen instruments: timbres divided between those that play active rhythms (snare drum, temple gongs, etc. ) with those that are non-rhythmic and sustaining (water gong, rubbed piano strings)
