I found that John Cage's body of work to be interesting in terms of his experimental work with chance music to be something totally random and new to the art world during his lifetime. The whole idea of this type of artform is new to me and I feel extremely challenged by it's abstractness and unpredictable qualities. I, for one, am a planner and I tend to meticulous about my work and what I do with it and the steps I take to execute my work. But with "Chance"- things seems so risky and unpredictable that my whole world is flipped upside down. I wasn't a big fan of enjoying a lot of Cage's works but I did appreciate the process he took with it all. One particular work I enjoyed was his composition called "In the Name of the Holocaust" played on a prepared piano. I felt that is represented the pain and suffering that people experienced in Germany during the Holocaust.
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