Re: OnoChord

On Jun 24, 8:35�am, "BlackMonk" <BlackM...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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I read that before Yoko met John, one of her "art" pieces was to get
up on stage and bang her head into the stage floor.>

I read that you're bitter and twisted. You can't believe everything you
read, can you?

<You're the Yoko expert. Are you saying it's not true?>

I've never heard of anything described like that. When? Where? Was it part
of a larger event? Was it the point of the piece or something incidental?
(You could say "John used to go onstage and play a G chord," which would
sound sillier than "John used to go onstage and play songs that involved
playing a G chord") If you know the name of the piece, I could probably
look
it up.

Incidently, I think you mean to say she'd bang her head on the stage
floor.
Banging her head into the stage floor would mean she has tremendous powers
far beyond those of ordinary mortals. You often seem to believe that,
though.

<Here's a link.  Yoko's head banging  was called Wall Piece for
Orchestra.  This "work of art" occurred in 1962.

http://www.kunstwissen.de/fach/f-kuns/o_mod/ono.htm>

First, the link isn't opening.
Second, Yoko wrote the piece, George Maciunas performed it. I think it works
better as a two line (including title) poem than it does as a performance
piece, but I'm probably no more qualified to critique this than you are.
Well, maybe a bit more qualified.
Third, why would you think something called "Wall Piece" involved a person
banging his or her head against the FLOOR.
Fourth, if you miss the point, that's not the fault of Yoko or Maciunas.

<I've always enjoyed the fact that Yoko would go around telling people
that she was a very famous artist before she met John and imply or
even state that meeting John was terrible for her career.  I thinks
that's  insulting to John.>

You thinks that? Well, Popeye, that's hardly a surprise given your history
of taking quotes out of context and twisting them to say what you want.- Hide quoted text -



Here's just a small part of the article:

Her first public concert took place at the Village Gate, New York, in
1961, as part of an evening of three contemporary Japanese composers.
Among Ono's contributions was:> A Grapefruit in the World of Park < ,
a multimedia melange which included a tape of mumbled words and wild
laughter, musicians playing atonal music, and a performer intoning
unemotionally about peeling a grapefruit, squeezing lemons, and
counting the hairs on a dead child.

In >Toilet Piece<, which drew on theories of chance and audience
participation, she amplified the sounds made in the lavatory;

in >Clock Piece<, she placed a clock on the center of the stage and
asked the audience to wait until the alarm went off.



It is too long to cut and paste the whole thing.

I guess some people would call the above "art" but it isn't art to
me. And even if it is, I don't see how anyone can compare the above
accomplishments to the "art" that John Lennon and/or the Beatles
created.


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