In Response to John Cage's The Future of Music: Credo

First off I would like to say that I love how Cage structured this writing. He basically has the main statement written out in all capital letters with explanations of different parts that break up this main statement spread throughout. I thoughts this was very neat and a good way of organizing one's thoughts.

As for the content I found it very interesting to read as I begin to score my video with sound. In the first drift all of my recordings were left to themselves. Now though I am able to do just what Cage is talking about and orchestrate using non-musical sounds. I especially enjoyed what he had to say about this theremin. This idea of starting off with an idea or material that could possibly bring about something quite unique only to undermine it's possibilites by utilizing it in a streamlined way really resonated with me. I am really going to try and keep this in mind as I go forward with my sound editing.

I also really like his ideas about how this evolution must also then bring about a whole new structural system. It reminded me a bit of Walter Murch's idea of trying to find or develop a uniform system for annotating film editing. In both cases I guess the idea that i am really drawn to is that you can take something which on the surface seems less structured and break it down and find the patterns at work.

Overall I found this writing to be very stimulating on a creative level and very interesting in that it was written much earlier than I would have thought had I not know better.