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What I don't understand is how this all transpired. It's 30 minutes or so of him talking about Branca to... somebody.. at a restaraunt or something. Did someone call up Cage, "Hey man, um, want to talk about that Branca show you saw?" Or was it part of a SUPER LONG interview with him? Also, Branca attained permission to release it -- that's cool, but I also have to wonder why he even bothered. The whole thing is kinda odd.
Cage is a fucking asshole. Keep in mind that he also thinks Harry Partch isn't "real music". Over the course of that whole track of him bitching, he makes not a single good point yet continually tries to reinforce the fact that Branca's music shouldn't exist. My favorite part of it was Cage going, "Yeah, I saw these musicians and everything was made up." and the interviewer goes, "No, they had stands and sheet music, they were playing off the sheet music." And Cage is like, "I didn't see that.. I dunno.. Is that so?" or something like that. Idiot.
Thinking about it now, John Cage is one of the most overrated musicians in history. He has some interesting works, but it's proof that you don't have to make good art -- as long as you have a good IDEA about art.
I really honestly do enjoy a lot of his work but this proves he's a dick.
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