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Old 12-13-2014, 10:47 PM   #351 (permalink)
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Well I didn't say they sounded different, actually I said ideally they sound the same, but rather that any difference is present at all.
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Old 12-13-2014, 10:49 PM   #352 (permalink)
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The number of performers, the instruments, the length of the piece, how the piece looks, and the experience of the composers could all differentiate from one silent piece to another.
Which is relevant, how? If there is no sound, it wouldn't matter if it was John Cage up on stage, or me. Seriously, for this to not just be an exercise in being pretentious, then it shouldn't matter one bit who's on stage.

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Are the noises that the performers are making identical to one another? (Ideally) yes. Is it redundant to write it down? Maybe, depends on the piece for me. Is it a composition? **** yes it is.
So, all that something has to be to be a composition, is a collection of symbols on a page? Cause that's all they are if they're not actually causing anything to happen.
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Old 12-13-2014, 10:50 PM   #353 (permalink)
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But is that not all that written music is
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Old 12-13-2014, 10:52 PM   #354 (permalink)
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Which is relevant, how? If there is no sound, it wouldn't matter if it was John Cage up on stage, or me. Seriously, for this to not just be an exercise in being pretentious, then it shouldn't matter one bit who's on stage.


So, all that something has to be to be a composition, is a collection of symbols on a page? Cause that's all they are if they're not actually causing anything to happen.
But if they were put together maybe in the way the conductor would conduct or what not. Applebaum has a piece for three composers and no players and based on their reactions is what the music is.
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But is that not all that written music is
If it's not producing sound, then yes it is. A pause is not a pause if it isn't pausing anything.

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But if they were put together maybe in the way the conductor would conduct or what not. Applebaum has a piece for three composers and no players and based on their reactions is what the music is.
What?
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Old 12-13-2014, 10:55 PM   #356 (permalink)
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Which is relevant, how? If there is no sound, it wouldn't matter if it was John Cage up on stage, or me.
It's relevant because it makes the experience different from performance to performance if those changes are made. You said that there was no difference at all, which is not true for reasons you quoted.

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So, all that something has to be to be a composition, is a collection of symbols on a page? Cause that's all they are if they're not actually causing anything to happen.
Well it's a guideline for the performers, so the piece is causing them to abstain from playing their instruments for the duration of the piece. Not to mention the differences that I pointed out before changing the group altogether. I think it's also important to consider the perspective of the performer in these types of compositions, whereas you're viewing it solely from a listener's perspective, which may be why we see the situation so differently.
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Old 12-13-2014, 10:56 PM   #357 (permalink)
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Good night MB. I'm old and tired, it's been a long day, and I'm gonna veg out in front of the tube for a while.

See ya'll tomorrow!

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Old 12-13-2014, 10:57 PM   #358 (permalink)
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Written music is only a series of commands. What if I went up to someone and told them to do absolutely nothing?

The music is in one way or another telling the performer not to do anything for a moment. That's not eloquent I guess, but that's what's happening.
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Old 12-13-2014, 10:58 PM   #359 (permalink)
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Ja, I agree. Conceptual pieces don't do well in the bedroom. Funk is the way to go.
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If it's not producing sound, then yes it is. A pause is not a pause if it isn't pausing anything.



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Yeah that was a bit muddled sorry. What I was trying to say was that a silent composition can be carried out by an orchestra, but the intent of the notes or lack-there-of may be for the conductor to carry out. For example Mark Applebaum has a piece where no notes are played but there are three conductors carrying out their own interpretations of what the music would be conducted like of musicians were playing along with the composition.
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