Blog 2: John Cage

Even though before this class I had already learned a great deal about Cage, I still find him completely interesting. The way he looks at music has changed my whole perspective on music. I agree with him that any sound is music in its own way. My freshman year in FYS we stopped and listened to traffic one day the way that Cage did, and surprising enough it was actually quite enjoyable and not annoying. We take so many daily sounds as annoying and a pest but if we just sit down and take the time to really listen to our surroundings we would realize these "sounds" are actually enjoyable to our ears. We all need to take a little break from our crazy lives and sit down and listen to the world around us.