On Thu, 2003-12-11 at 14:53, Patrice L. Roussel wrote:
Are your taste moving away from John Cage or do you already have all his records?
I have most of what's been released. But I find that I don't listen to his recordings much for *enjoyment*, but more as a kind of research, and that I enjoy attending live performances of his works more, and most enjoy playing his works. Cage himself stated repeatedly that recordings of many of his work were not particularly useful. (Come to thing of it, I picked up one of his recent CDs the moment it came into the store several months ago, but it's still sitting on my to-be-listened-to rack.) But I do find that I'm listening more and more for melody, harmony, groove and the like. My current guilty pleasure is collegiate a cappella renditions of pop hits. One group in particular, UPenn Off the Beat, is exceptional. I have to hunt down some of their CDs sometime, since I've only listened to their MP3s.
PS: Weird Al Yankovic! Really? Can you say why?
It's the degluteazation response: he makes me laugh my ass off.