Sound Ideas Part 3: Silence

JOhn Cage has brought up an inters resting topic about looking at sound in a different view than the one everyone is already accustomed to. John Cage talks about the sound people normally don’t listen to including the sound of a kitchen or the sound of traffic on a busy highway and the different situation the sound goes through. Cage is attracted to the many levels the sound of traffic goes through and the opaqueness of traffic. He enjoys the traffic when it hits the high points but he also enjoys it when it hits the low points. The sound of traffic to him is like the sound of a symphony. This is where he brings up the topic of the music that is generally played by living person in the world. John Cage believes that music, specifically songs are just people talking about their feelings and talking about next to nothing that doesn’t affect him emotionally as the sound of traffic does. He believes that even Beethoven’s music, the greatest composer of known time though l don’t know anything about him, is somebody playing instruments and relates his music to the sound of traffic and the many rifts that sound goes through.

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