Collaborative music: Composer's social media symphon

[Guest]

The thought of Radio 3's getting their trotters into this idea has just given me the shudders

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-21719783

Maybe I'm just getting old but I think the process is the thing, the playing/listening is just the cherry on top

[Sir Velo]

Don't they know Charles Ives was doing all this a hundred years ago?

[MrGongGong]

Don't they know Charles Ives was doing all this a hundred years ago?

Yes Tod does, and has also been doing this thing for a long time
that's what tradition is all about
in the world that some of us live in these things are hardly unusual but usually hidden away

[amateur51]

Yes Tod does, and has also been doing this thing for a long time
that's what tradition is all about
in the world that some of us live in these things are hardly unusual but usually hidden away

I thought you'd like to see it, MrGG.

I'd love to see more about the engagement of the public in the enterprise

[Boilk]

Novelty pieces make for entertaining news reporting and consumption. But the musical results have yet to prove themselves as lasting art.

It's the novelty value of, say 4'33" or In C, that invariably gets discussed rather than any inherent musical worth.

[MrGongGong]

Novelty pieces make for entertaining news reporting and consumption. But the musical results have yet to prove themselves as lasting art.

It's the novelty value of, say 4'33" or In C, that invariably gets discussed rather than any inherent musical worth.

ahem

4:33 is NOT a "novelty" piece anymore than the Eroica is
and
longevity is NOT always a measure of value

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

4'33" is sixty-one years old and still causing controversy and delight - that's a pretty good definition of "lasting art". (When Wagner began Tristan und Isolde, the Eroica was a mere youth of fifty-two!)

[MrGongGong]

4'33" is sixty-one years old and still causing controversy and delight - that's a pretty good definition of "lasting art". (When Wagner began Tristan und Isolde, the Eroica was a mere youth of fifty-two!)

I love the way that Cage lives on , i'm sure he would delight in it all