John Cage

The Prepared Piano & Chance Systems

John Cage - Prepared Piano

I found Cage to be most interesting in how he would explore life with such question. He would question himself first about how he feels about a given subject or art piece and ask why he feels this way. He questions the social structures we inherit from our culture and reshapes his conceptions of thought, thinking, and liking.
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"Why do I dislike this?"
                                                                             

His artwork is built a lot through chance systems. In where the artist inputs their ideas and the outcome is predetermined through a random data system. This creates a final product that is void of human interruption for creative aesthetics. He spans his work through many forms of media: film, music, sound, and dance. My favorite of his pieces is the prepared piano, in which he manipulates the sounds the piano strings create through placing objects like screws in specific locations. The video like below is an example of John Cages prepared piano work.

 Prepared Piano - John Cage - Sonata V