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Old 12-13-2014, 09:51 PM   #321 (permalink)
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From that list, In Futurum by Erwin Schulhoff appears to be notated in great rhythmic detail, employing bizarre time signatures and intricate rhythmic patterns.
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Old 12-13-2014, 09:51 PM   #322 (permalink)
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Wrote what? Rests? Pauses? If there isn't any sound to pause from then you may as well be clapping with one hand.

And I wasn't criticizing anybody's compositional skill, or even a silent "song"'s relevance as art, just the idea that silence can be a composition.
And you were saying that it's not a composition because it supposedly doesn't take any compositional skill. You also seem to think that "rest" means "stop," which isn't the case. A rest is where the instrument is silent. A composition (discounting free form music and real time composition) is a guide for the performer to use in a piece as to what to do. Since a silent piece dictates what the performer should do (which in this case is nothing), doesn't that make it a composition?
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Old 12-13-2014, 09:53 PM   #323 (permalink)
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Looks pretty composed

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Old 12-13-2014, 09:54 PM   #324 (permalink)
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Looks pretty composed

Um… is that for piano?
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Old 12-13-2014, 09:55 PM   #325 (permalink)
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Are you guys being serious?

Here's a new poem I wrote. What do you think?

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Old 12-13-2014, 09:57 PM   #326 (permalink)
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^Might I recommend E.E. Cummings if you're into that style of poetry.

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I just really wanna see the sheet music

I forget where I learned about this, but the composition for that song is made up of glyphs and stuff like that and it looks like a Roman Haubenstock-Ramati composition.
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Old 12-13-2014, 09:59 PM   #327 (permalink)
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And you were saying that it's not a composition because it supposedly doesn't take any compositional skill. You also seem to think that "rest" means "stop," which isn't the case. A rest is where the instrument is silent. A composition (discounting free form music and real time composition) is a guide for the performer to use in a piece as to what to do. Since a silent piece dictates what the performer should do (which in this case is nothing), doesn't that make it a composition?
First of all, no, I did not say anything about skill, that's a strawman. I know nothing about John Cage's ability as a composer, but I certainly am not going to count a non-composition against his skill as one.

If there isn't any sound being made, then does the difference between a stop or a rest or falling asleep in your chair make any ****ing difference? Whatever the musicians may or may not be doing with their instruments has nothing to do with the silence, anymore than a tiger-repelling rock has to do with repelling tigers. They just happen to be there. So, if you want to call a bunch of pointlessly written down notes and rhythms and time signatures a composition, then go right ahead. But you get exactly the same silence without it.
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Old 12-13-2014, 10:01 PM   #328 (permalink)
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Are you guys being serious?

Here's a new poem I wrote. What do you think?

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I didn't like it personally, but it does employ a very innovative rhythm I'm not used to seeing in traditional poetry
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Old 12-13-2014, 10:06 PM   #329 (permalink)
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First of all, no, I did not say anything about skill, that's a strawman. I know nothing about John Cage's ability as a composer, but I certainly am not going to count a non-composition against his skill as one.
I took your "doing nothing" idea as being about skill. My bad.

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If there isn't any sound being made, then does the difference between a stop or a rest or falling asleep in your chair make any ****ing difference? Whatever the musicians may or may not be doing with their instruments has nothing to do with the silence, anymore than a tiger-repelling rock has to do with repelling tigers. They just happen to be there. So, if you want to call a bunch of pointlessly written down notes and rhythms and time signatures a composition, then go right ahead. But you get exactly the same silence without it.
It'd be quite different, actually, because generally this disparity between notes would result in pieces of different lengths. Also, from the performer's perspective, it's obviously a very different piece. If you want to be true to the piece (assuming it's written using conventional rests instead of time stamps) you'll be counting the beats still, and this would widely change the experience for the performer. It may still be the same idea that silence is being used, but it is still different if only because of the sheet music alone.
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So if I put a picture of a peanut butter and jelly sandwich in front of someone it somehow equates to the same experience as actually eating a peanut butter and jelly sandwich?
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