What Isn’t Music After Cage?

from SONGBOOK 5 by Mattin

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1. What Isn’t Music After Cage?
when John Cage went to the anechoic Chamber
at Harvard in 1951, he was expecting silence
but he heard two sounds:
1) his nervous system
2) his circulating blood
Douglas Khan, makes the point
that Cage would also have heard a third sound
the sound of him discerning the two other previous sounds
Is then music conceptual instead of perceptual?
after that everything can be perceived as music
a dehearchisation of values
which can also resemble today's real subsumption in capitalism
it allows you to do anything because it knows its power
for recuperation is as strong as ever
the point is not to treat all sounds as valid music
but understand the relations that occur in
the production and the reception and
if possible change those conditions

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from SONGBOOK 5, released February 23, 2014

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