Piano Piece #1 for Terry Riley by La Monte Young
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- čas přidán 13. 06. 2019
- Recorded this piece for my experimental music class that I took with professor Ryan Dohoney at Northwestern University. The instructions are:
"Push the piano up to a wall and put the flat side flush against it. Then continue pushing into the wall. Push as hard as you can. If the piano goes through the wall, keep pushing in the same direction regardless of new obstacles and continue to push as hard as you can whether the piano is stopped against an obstacle or moving. The piece is over when you are too exhausted to push any longer." - Hudba
Sick tune dude! Would love to hear a drum'n'bass remix of it.
Well done, Isaac! Thanks for sharing! I imagine this could be cool if performed in a giant hall!
Wow, I am stunned at the beauty of this piece of melodious art.
Very interesting.
Well, I haven't watched all the way through - but I'm impressed you kept trying for as long as 9 minutes. I guess it's the performer's judgement when they are "too exhausted" to continue.
5th time a charm? I f'n hope so... Gettin' tired of doing this crap over and over, but here goes yet again... 1st post- yer kiddin' right? Beauty? Melodious??? Hah! It's some friggin guy futilely and relentlessly shoving a piano against the wall of some tiny practice room like I used to use in college... I'm quite familiar with the works of both gentlemen listed and they're nothing like this!... More like when I saw John Cage around '78, he takes the next stage to applause, and scoots the bench back like we've seen pianists do many times... Then again and again, like he can't get it right, ad infinitum for over 6 min. or so-- then this gawdawful squall starts coming from what sounds for all the world like 2 blown speakers!.. I think this guy is just punking us, and I think John Cage at this stage, at his age (jeez, I can rhyme!) was just having a merry prank at our expense. In fact , he quitly chuckled to himself.. But this is NOT funny!..
One of his weaker compositions. Don't try it in a helicopter.
Well, I just read the "instructions" for this piece of crap, and apparently, it's lëgit-- though I find it hard to believe that la monte actually wrote it for Terry, unless they were fond of doing silly crap to one another, for shits and giggles!
Well, it would be good for you to read about the Fluxus scene of the 60's in the USA. Then you will probably understand that this 'crap' is a kind of Fluxus prose score. It is better to read more and talk less.
and having a sense of humor helps. Another source may be the Dada Movements, but I welcome your thoughts and criticism