[Readings: John Cage & Murray Schafer.]

John Cage:
This article is based on John Cage’s view toward sound and music, and how his
perception on noise sound enabled him a new level of music. He is know as
pioneer of experimental music including chance music, and music with
instruments that he created.

“New music: new listening. Not an attempt to understand something that is
being said, for, if something were being said, the sounds would be given the
shapes of words. Just an attention to the activity of sounds.”

“A sound accomplishes nothing; without if life would not last out the instant”

Murray Schafer
In this article, author explains how industrial revolution and electric revolution
brought new level of sound into natural state. Since there were a lot of on
going development in the industrial age, a lot of production lines became
mechanized and noise from these mechanized lines were everywhere. For
example, train has developed in the industrial age, and its sound and noise
became so much familiar to us that it became natural sound that we hear
at one point. Moreover, electric revolution brought new sounds such as
telephone’s tone noise, and radio signal sound. As new sounds were developed
notation has developed also to visualize the sounds.

Links+
John Cage database
John Cage about silence (Youtube)
Experimental music performance Canada

world soundscape project