Amazing words from John Cage

Several quotes from "The Future of Music: Credo" by John Cage 1937 (John Cage, 1912-1992 was the most influential and controversial American experimental composer of the 20th century.) *If this word "music" is sacred and reserved for eighteenth and nineteenth century instruments, we can substitue a more meaningful term: organization of sound. *Wherever we are, what we hear is mostly noise. When we ignore it, it disturbs us. When we listen to it, we find it fascinating. The sound of a truck at fifty miles per hour. Static between the stations. Rain. We want to capture and control these sounds, to use them not as sound effects but as musical instruments. Every film studio has a library of sound effects recorded on film. With a film phonograph it is now possible to control the amplitude and frequency of any one of these sounds and to give it rhythms within or beyond the reach of the imagination. Given four film phonographs, we can compose and perform a quartet for explosive motor, wind, heartbeat, and landslide. *I believe that the use of noise to make music will continue and increase until we reach a music produced through the aid of electrical instruments which will make available for musical purposes any and all sounds that can be heard. Whereas in the past, the point of disagreement has been between dissonance and consonance, it will be, in the immediate future, between noise and so-called musical sounds. The present methods of writing music, principally those which employ harmony and its reference to particular steps in the field of sound, will be inadequate for the composer who will be faced with the entire field of sound. *The composer (organizer of sound) will not only be faced with the entire field of sound, but with the entire field of time. The frame or fraction of a second, following established film technique, will probably be the basic unit in the measurement of time. No rhythm will be beyond the composer's reach. CLICK HERE to hear more RhythmRancher music NOW!!