Oh now I'm jealous!Quote:
Originally Posted by Prospero
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Oh now I'm jealous!Quote:
Originally Posted by Prospero
:Bowdown:Well when you come to London you can bathe in the reflected glory - but sitting alone in a room with me.
By the way the cage piece is 4.22 - and while it is hardly brilliant in itself (how could it be) its a conceptual masterstroke in my opinion - the idea being to make us listen intently to what we never normally hear. The ambience of a room etc. It's a sort of framing of time. Rather in the same way Marcel Duchamp took familiar objects like a urinal and decontextualised them.
Of course Cage's 4'22" is sheer perfection. Proof: If you change just one note, the whole thing is ruined. :)
Presumably that's the cover version, as John Cage's piece is 4' 33"
Talking of music, A Clockwork Orange -the Musical is in preparation. At first I thought this was a joke, but apparently Burgess, who was also a composer, provided a score, similar, it is said, to West Side Story...I have never been able to get into Burgess's other books, and heard some of his music on Radio 3 years ago, and was similarly unimpressed. Story is here:
http://newsfeed.time.com/2011/07/22/...its-happening/
Thanks Stavros. He's the go to guy for this kind of accuracy.
Re Burgess. Try "Earthly Powers". Wonderful piece of fiction. "The Long Day Wanes" isn't half bed either.
No Stavros, that was the radio version. Radio 1 wouldn't have it on their playlist unless it was under 4' 33".Quote:
Originally Posted by Stavros
And as for the mind-boggling conceit of a musical version of A Clockwork Orange, it couldn't possibly be worse than anything by Andrew fecking Lloyd fecking Webber.
YOU mean Fecking Andrew Fecking Lloyd Fecking Fecking Webber?
Wasn't a clockwork orange (the film) almost a musical anyway? Music was so crucial in it?
Oh gawds, I've stepped on a trigger plate.
CAGE!?!! SERIOUSLY!?!! ARGHHHhhhhhhhhhhh!!!
*cue sounds of running footsteps, a door closing and screaming of 'Lalalalalah' fading to black...*