Sound Organization

The article I chose was The Future of Music: Credo written by John Cage in 1937. This article interested me more than the others because it wasn’t all about drifting or telling you to listen to everything around you. I also liked the style the article was written in, with two things being said at the same time. It’s as though the author wants to bombard you with information like we are bombarded with sound everyday.

Cage begins the article by explaining how noise is everywhere all the time no matter where we are in all forms and of different asthetics. He claims that what we refer to as music can be termed “organization of sound”. He believes that the future of music will be made up of electrical instruments, instruments that have more capabilities than more traditional instruments such as piano or violin. We will also begin to move away from conventional hamonies and rhythm. He believes that this new experimental music will be the music of the future.

This is relevant to me as a media artist because I play around with sounds using the technologies of the new millennium. I can do so much more with sound than they could do back in the 1930s. It’s also important as an artist to try an experiment with new ideas and attempt to use new methods outside of the ordinary. I will be looking forward to the future of music as well as sound.