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Cage likes to use the piano as a tool that he likes to experiment with. I remember reading about him in the Art In The Making for Tooling up chapter for my art class last semester. He would put different objects in and on the piano to see what type of sounds it would make. He would add nails on the string and the nail would roll between as he played the piano. When he went on tour with Cunningham he could carry nails and rubber bands to modify whatever piano came to Hand. Cage has inspired many artists like Robert Rauschenberg, David Tudor and Alvin Lucier to use different types of instruments and objects in their work. Artists like Laurie Anderson have used audio tape for a bow to experiment with different sounds. This reminds me of when I was in high school during one of our band and orchestra concerts we would use bubble wrap and pop them to mimic the sounds of the fireworks. So really anything can be music or art if you really put your thought and time in.
I wanted to focus on my day to day life. Waking up and starting off my day and what is going on throughout my day and how it ends. Sometimes my day will start off pretty calm and then I’ll start feeling pressure from and and everything will be so loud that I can’t focus on one sound. Going to class and walking to class was pretty calming, working at the library and listening to people passing through, coming to print or scan books and hearing the pages being turned. I would then get that pressure again throughout the day so I added the sounds of the driller and have other sounds added to it like the flipping of pages and I seem to can’t escape it. But eventually it will get calmer throughout the day. Some of the sounds are from me recording different sounds from different classes. There will be sounds from my studio, the sounds of the sanders turning on, the sounds of the driller and people working in the studio. Some of them are from my lecture class, the sounds of my professor teaching astronomy. Working at Norlin and collecting the sounds of people walking by and scanning books, turning off the light when it’s time to close the library.
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