Feeling Music

(Music – a form of “in sound transformed” time’ )

and the actual life , or moments, actions from life

relating to John Cage who saw in music also everyday actions … every action can be transformed in a musical piece or can stand for a composition itself 

„When i hear what we call music, it seems to me, that someone is talking. And talking about his feelings, or about his ideas of relationships. But when I hear traffic, the sound of traffic – here on sixth avenue, for instance – i don’t have the feeling that anyone is talking . I have the feeling that sound is acting. And I have the activity of sound (…)  I don’t need sound to talk to me.“ 

John Cage

TIME PAINTING NYC 2011

Acryl on canvas 1,50m x1m

When I was studying music, John Cage was one of the composers of the 20th century which were the most fascinating to me . I think he really leads a way to bring the idea of the conceptual art also into the field of musical composition . This is to my mind not only a very free approach , but indeed very social, as it encloses every action , every detail of life which doesn t seem on the first view to be art .

J.S.Bach – Sonata for violin solo No 2 in a minor BWV 1003 – andante – Saskia Hein violin