John Cage "Water walk" 

The audience doesn't realise that they too are being played, that they are one of the instruments. Their reaction and laughter is part of the composition. (As people have already noted below.)

“millennial humour is so weird and nonsensical, back in my day jokes were well constructed and delivered” what people were laughing at in 1960:

This is me walking around my house with 15 tasks to do, getting distracted halfway through each one

My music teacher told me when he was in college in the 70s at Texas tech John Cage gave a performance and the bread teacher was so offended he grabbed his trumpet and interrupted the performance blasting "anything you can do I can do better" and John Cage's reaction was to start clapping and shouting bravo to the professor

WE WALKIN IT OUT THE WATER WITH THIS ONE 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

Instead of getting angry because of the people laughing, I just take it as an element of Cages piece.

the first asmr video

I like how they were self aware enough to say "if you feel the urge to laugh, go ahead". It gives the random madness a better context. Also good to hear the audience clapping at the end. The respect everyone had for each other allowed more perspective on what could have been just silly randomness.

Me trying to act natural when my crush is around

I'm surprised by how many John Cage fans seem to have forgotten that he had a great sense of humor. The audience laughing adds a lot to this piece.

the laughter is part of the composition for him, i like he just slams the piano to make it sound

these force you to appreciate the sounds naturally produced in everyday life.

If only they knew that he is the grandfather of sound sampling and innovator of sound effects. The man took risks but aside from all the cynicism and ridicule, he gave ideas in finding "other" sounds in everyday objects we take for granted.

Gotta love the experimental artists. A lot of work for barely any recognition and yet they offer something different and something new. And with all of those efforts occasionally something enduring and worthwhile comes out of it.

Lyrics: *Impact sound* *Impact sound* *Impact sound* *Impact sound* *Impact sound* *Impact sound* *Impact sound* *Impact sound* *Weird sound* HHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA *Impact sound* *Impact sound* *Blender sound* *Piano sound* *Rubber duck sound* *Impact sound* *Impact sound* *Falling sound* *Drinking sound*

John Cage: People: AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

This is sampling in its purest form. What a great performance..

The objects he used were things people use in their everyday lives- I think this is a reflection of how chaotic our lives, and even our minds can get, when we're handling too many things at once. Most of the sounds were abrupt and reflect a darker tone, and so I think this enhances the negative effects of too much noise on our lives.

this is pure comedic gold, but a huge game changer in the music industry. idk how you can't love it

I had the honour of meeting John Cage at Darmstadt. He was a brilliant thinker and creative artist, pure genius. He had figured out how to cure his rheumatoid arthritis very easily with a specialized macrobiotic diet and avoidance of nightshade foods in the 1970s, he told me all about it. (Take that you medical people could also learn from Cage, plus he was a fascinating mushroom expert.) Completely brilliant composer, a world great, inspirational gifts and talent. Learn from Cage, and examine indeterminacy, it is a very powerful compositional tool celebrating freedom. How lucky we are to have had great thinkers and inventors in music like Cage.

Shoddy performance. The flowers were slightly out of tune.

*Who's here because they need it for their module?*

One of the very essences of Cage's work is that nobody truly has the reverence or position to define music and sound, and to differentiate the two. Cage experimented with sounds that had never been traditionally used in music composition and opened it out to it's performative equivalents. He wrote more traditional compositions with pianos and small orchestras, but he worked with them as tools rather than instruments and very much revelled in modernist ideas of sound. In this he's essentially asking us as well as the audience of the game show to listen to the sound and to consider the possibility that what we are hearing could be music and you'd be surprised how much this kind of thing is now used in modern techniques. He famously said that there is no such thing as silence, and sound is like actors; minds of it's own and charisma. Intellectual yes and something non conformist or traditional, but has immense importance in the sound world.

i love how the judging and laughig of the audience is part of the composition.. hes a genius in disguise

I actually find this relaxing and interesting somehow.

John Cage might’ve been the greatest troll in music history.

1. COMPOSED BY RANDOM PITCHES AND RHYTHM 2. TUPPERWARE, DRUMS, MICROPHONE, WATERJAG, SPOON AND FORK. Just my answer, kayo na bahala haha.

I have never seen or ear any John Cage recording before, but even so, because some people have told me about him, he is a big inspitation to me and to my work of exploring what is possible to do with sound of things. This is a briant peace! Thank you 'Nave' for charing this video.

This man is a true artist, I'm bringing him to my space colony...

The audience is laughing exactly when they are supposed to be laughing. So brilliant

Laman ng Comment: ❌: *Sinasabi na nandito sila dahil sa module.* ✔️: *Sinasabi yung Sagot.* Bigay na kasi kayo ng answer🥺

The slow zoom in on his face when he drinks coffee is comedic gold

You can feel a lot of action and like something is happening and taking place, while the performance is not entirely musical, it feels interesting and like it's a statement in life that we shouldn't take our daily tasks too seriously.. I believe that we have a life call and mission that we need to do, and this piece adds to it the notion that we need to feel like we're playing while on our way there.

Never seen anything like this before. Like a musical version of abstract art.

John Cage definitely had a wonderful sense of humour, which shows in his work.

When I am making myself a sandwich I didn´t know I was performing music

"Water Walk" inspired me to arrange my public safety scanners around my apartment. The closer the first responders are to my immediate neighborhood, the closer my scanner is to my ears. Ambient noise is music to my ears.

John Cage was challenging the concept of what can be prepared music in 1960... So amazing..

Thanks, this one sounds so much better than the other uploads of this.

Me trying to pretend I’m busy

Para sa mga module niyo. Mabait kac ako. Grade 10. Characteristics of chance music that can be deduced from the vedio: Man-made and doesn't include musical instruments. Other objects than can be use to create sounds: -Kitchen materials/tools -Table -Door Module lang kapatid...

This is an absolute masterpiece

I think with media like RU-vid, audience comments here added the temporal dimension that Cage couldn't even imagine. Bravo!!

The audience is just like bunch of random laugh tracks in a Sitcom show, where nothing is really funny

John Cage had more strange ideas than a crystal meth addict on LSD and angel dust. Not that there's any problem with what he did --- he was utterly brilliant in his weirdness.

It's cool because an open interpretation of his music by the listener means that he himself must be open-minded to the reaction of his music, which judging by this video, he is.

Good music This music make me relax I hear this when I am sleeping

You gotta understand, the audience are not the typical people that you would find listening to avant garde or noise. These are your mainstream listeners who probably haven’t been exposed to experimental art like this, so I should seem silly to them. Nothing wrong with that tho. I think it adds to this performance

Is it just me or does this sound satisfying to listen to

anything is your instrument. your heart will tell you what feels right. just put it into the world and you will be greatly rewarded, in ways you may not understand yet

Changing the concept of music while being acessible to the general public, John Cage is a fucking genius!

"Music and laughter don't have to mean anything" John Cage

One of the influences to Ross Geller music

This is that real music man... This is that real music...

This was cool to watch! 😊

“I only listen to real music.”

Es magnífico el trabajo de John Cage, Tom Waits y tantos que descubrieron un mundo de posibilidades sonoras

I really enjoyed this work.

Gonna perform this next year. Wish me luck!

This is beautiful We are all music..walking vibrations.

His work is super interesting and I’ll just think the audience laughing is apart makes it even better because they way he thinks is awesome.

you can laugh or hate, but he is genius. imagine 1960 and you doing this so specific, weird, out of the box. glad a lot ppl see his game.

Wow, i believe this is gonna be a hit.

Anyone complaining about the audience laughing is failing to understand the inherent humor in John Cage’s work.

My favorite part is the glissando followed by the bird call.

Marvelous, just marvelous!!

Have you guys seen the extended version where he relieves himself in the bathtub? Top notch.

The greatest song ever.

Comedy was so simple then, the people laughed at the smallest things

Water and ocean. Inspiring and helpful.

it´s completely in the groove - well done!

a true master of comedy

Every Foley artist: Ahh. So THAT’S how it’s done. 😆

cymbal to the water gag gets me every time

that is our lesson in mapeh subject.thanks for apploading..

I like the MC's introduction.

Recently got into Yoko Ono and find out John Cage is her mentor, damn I'm in for a treat

I find this one really cool--Like, of course he enjoys performing here. But what is so cool is if one puts on headphones and also closes one's eyes, only hearing the sounds, it can sound like what might be heard walking around a busy docking area, with lots of loading/unloading boats, mechanized processes, work commotion; the clanging and thuds, splashing sounds and wildlife such as gulls and whatnot. It is beautiful!

I like this. Dinner will be served right after the concert

I find it so fascinating that he also uses his audience as part of this event. He needs the reaction out of them but the audience doesn't realize.

john cage: does something crowd: W H E E Z E

Teacher: what Instrument do you play John cage: I can explain

How can one appreciate the sequence of sounds when people don't take it seriously and keep on laughing, and Cage himself seems to indulge them?

i feel like this guy has been playing piano since he was a toddler and im watching his burnout

this is what multitasking sounds like

This feels so eerie

this is what everyone listens to in their daily life but maybe seeing it from another perspective is more fun and that makes this piece have its own.

I learned about him in my college music appreciation course and his music seems more like a science experiment than music to me

brilliant!

This guy was ahead of his time.

a stroll through the city just after noon edit: this is what i had on mind listening very very cool

Art is weird I love it

Grade 10 Music Module Who's with me?

Life is music. You're welcome.

Missing from this upload is the segment where the host warns John that some of the audience are inevitably going to laugh. John's reply: "I consider laughter preferable to tears."

John Cage: drincc beer People: HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAH thats funny bcus he drincc beer on the cup HAHAHAHA

oh the 2000+ ppl who don't even know john cage coming here saying all kinds of shit :)))) genius is what this is

It's legendary

this is me walking around my house at 2am trying to make some snack

Industrial Noise Avant-gardiste. il se serre des rires du public comme partie intégrante de sa performance. Bien qu'incompris de ses contemporains, il réintroduit la notion de son et rend à la musique sa définition originelle.