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Test yourself: Can you tell the difference between music and noise? - Hanako Sawada

Test yourself: Can you tell the difference between music and noise? - Hanako Sawada

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Get to know avant-garde music composer John Cage, whose work challenged the boundaries between music and noise. In 1960, composer John Cage went on television to share his latest work. But rather than using traditional instruments, Cage appeared surrounded by household clutter, including a bathtub, ice cubes, a toy fish, a rubber duck, several radios, and performed Water Walk. Most people watching had the same question: is this even music? Hanako Sawada explores the boundaries between music and noise.
Date: 2023-06-01

Comments and reviews: 15


I always had people mocking me for my taste in music and how to most it was just annoying noise ( I loved heavy dubstep, deathstep and rithem and bass).
So I looked into what is music, music is basically just organized sound in some typically harmonic way.
So it's definitely music, but what makes it good or bad? I spent ages considering this, standing in other people's shoes, trying to gage their perspective and I came to a conclusion.
Thier is no bad music because if thier truly was, it wouldn't exist. No one would listen to it and so it would die.
Music is for us to enjoy, to feel and get emotional. It's for our entertainment.
The only thing seperateing them is what kind of organised sounds you like: )

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I remember reading a short comic that gives me similar feelings. A cookbook with loose directions in the recipies is trying to be understood by the writer's daughter, who is about to become a mother herself. The reader is a famous, gourmet chef, so this is seen as careless. It is revealed at the end, however, that the recipies were written with such loose directions so that any new ingredients her children wanted to try could be added. This using of unfamiliar ingredients would also mean that she would have to adapt the recipe. So, it is no wonder that the recipies are so loose and vague. They were not made to be followed, but rather, adapted.
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I think there is a reason why music theory was developed. Thousands and thousands of composers and musicians worked for thousands of years. Their work culminated in the rules of music. We can't just take random sounds, slap them together and say it is music. If you don't work with it to create harmonies, melodies, ask questions and answer them, then it is not music.
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For me the difference between music and noise always been the reason explained in the video, both are sounds, if the sound is unwanted it's noise if it's wanted is music. For example you may drumming with your pencil on the desk, you may find it catchy bc you fill the sounds in your head but your roommate after few mins will ask you to stop making noises.
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almost any sound or collection of sounds can be music. whether it is pleasing to the ear is up to the listener. I think it isn't a question of is it music but of is it good music. to me I disliked it because it lacked a pleasing flow, yet someone else might like no flow to their music.
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The cartoons aren t drawn proportionally to how actual human bodies are, it s just as offensive as Barbie dolls not being naturally proportioned. These cartoons set an unnatural standard for how a human should look.
See how irrational it is to be offended by everything

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Cage is the reason classical music in western countries is death. I ve been listening to oriental composers and they ve got it, but western contemporary composers are so elevated they don t have to excell in their trade, one should understand them to be as intellectual as them
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I watched this video expecting to find out some real contribution that cage gave humanity with this music mambo jambo. But in the end it is what it is, useless! You can take it out of mankind history and it will change nothing (except for one less thing to make fun of lmao)
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So much of this is people pretending they are very clever. Just take this to food and imagine someone asking can we make feces into food? What is food even? .
We all know what food is just as we all know what music is. You're not clever, just stop.

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i think the word music in any language that comes first is created because of a certain instrument used to guide someone singing; not because of a sound of a falling rock or a hammer hits a nail, don't u think?
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(yet to watch) this is a naive question, and I hope this video elaborates saying as much? because literally music is just what we consider music, regardless of if someone specifically made it to be or not.
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If I went to a show and somebody came out onstage, sat down at a piano then waited four and a half minutes then just walked away I'd be concerned I had a stroke halfway through or something. LoL
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I think music has a rhythm. Its sometimes repetitive, or like the symphony 5, a transition that makes sense. It should somehow connect with people, get their sub consciousness thinking.
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Cage is a very fitting name for someone who controls randomness and makes it boring. There really is music in everything but he captures less emotion than a squeaking shopping cart wheel
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Noise is a following tone of irregular and unpleasant vibrations. The pleasant movements of a non-irritable tone even chalk screech in a low and harmonizing vibrations can be music.
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