John Milton Cages Influence On Society

Biography
John Milton Cage Jr is an American composer of the 20th century. John Cage was born on September 5, 1912 in Los Angeles, California and died August 12, 1992, in New York, New York. During his 80 years of life Cage had accomplished many achievements and left a great legacy that still remains today. Cage impact in the world of music is he proposing that the primary act of musical performance was not making music, but listening. While attending Pomona College for a short period of time, Cage realized that he were interesting in making music that were totally different from his time. He then returned to the United States in 1931 to study music with Arnold Schonberg, Richard Buhlig, Henry Cowell, and Adolph Weiss. His best collaborate
In his time, many critics Cages philosophies of music because they didn’t consider are composed of 4’33 to be music. Usually people were expecting to hear the sound come from the performance, but instead there was just complete silence. That’s what made people question his work and if it was valid because Cage challenged the musical world with his compositions. He wanted other artists to open their ears to the sound of music because the sound of music is the most important part of a song. John Cage gives a different outlook of music because he tries to persuade his audience that silence is the key to wordless music. Cage makes a great point with performing a song in silent but it’s very difficult for me to relate or connect to a song with no sound. Whereas I rather listen to music that have lyrics, so I can have a better feel of the song. He made me look at music in a different perspective because he made listening to sound seems so beautiful. Every now and then I will just listen to the birds that chirping outside my window instead of picking up my phone and listening to my playlist. I still stand by my point of view on music, but that doesn’t mean I won’t expand my knowledge on the music. I know there is more music to acknowledge and study so I will keep on learning. My philosophy and Cage’s philosophy of music is a little similar because I think
If it wasn’t for his interest in music and taking them music lessons we would never experience the amazing compositions of his work. The negative criticism pushes him to do better in his work and studies. That’s what made him so different from other composer because of his unorthodox and strange work. His uniqueness made others question their point of view on music because his style of work was mainly focused on sound not the music. When comparing his music to another great composer like Mozart, they had a different view on music. Basically Mozart life revolved around the piano and Cages was interest to sound. Even though they conducting their music in different eras, but they made music to what we know today. Music is what you want it to be if it just a speeding car or a barking dog, we can make it into a musical beat. John Cage took risks that other composer wouldn’t make a difference in the music world. He will always remain a great composer because of his difficult mindset of