The "Indeterminacy" Of Postmodern Musicand Its Eastern Response

Throughout the whole history of western music,the emergence of Post-Modernism " Indeterminacy " is not only due to the awakening of the "Rebellion" consciousness in western music culture and the elimination of "Norms",but also the steady integration from eastern and western cultures.It reflects the important aesthetic thoughts of contemporary music schools and becomes an inevitable trend for all kinds of music in the past thousands of years for developing western music.As an extremely complex and unpredictable artistic phenomenon,the "Indeterminacy" builds a multi-modern visual landscape and a new cultural system,whose expression and spirit are far beyond the traditional aesthetics.Otherwise,it plays an important role in the research of "Postmodernism".This paper makes a brief discussion about the context of "Indeterminacy"(i.e.,postmodernism)and the directly affected factors and the roots of its emergence,which arouse the thinking of tight connection between eastern philosophical thoughts and "Indeterminacy".John Cage's 4'33" builds its important position in music history by "Silence" and expounds its "Indeterminacy" from the views of composers,performers and listeners.Nowadays,as an important feature of western post-modernism music,"Indeterminacy" is accepted by more and more people."Indeterminacy" and its oriental response also reflect the deep integration of eastern and western music culture.This paper expounds the trend of influence from the oriental response of "Indeterminacy" to the Chinese contemporary music creating,and takes Jia Guoping's Whispers of a Gentle Wind as an example.The research on the topic of "Indeterminacy" in postmodern music is based on the culture and social history background.It seeks the root from the origin and retells the history,but also focuses on the current situation.It not only makes a great effort to the recognition and reconstruction of the value in eastern and western music culture,but also promotes a deep thinking of musicians' about music technology,creating ideas and aesthetics.In the time of globalization and development,all kinds of cultures talk and integrate with each other frequently.The research on the "Indeterminacy" of postmodern music aims to find out the characteristics or commonness of "Self" music culture from the perspective of "Other" music culture,so as to advocate a kind of related academic discourse,which is helpful for us to have a deep understanding in “Self” music culture and its development.In the new era,music culture researchers need to have a forward-looking consciousness to explore development of music culture in the way of investigation and thinking,and the problems caused by the interaction of guidance and direction of "Indeterminacy" are definitely a field with broad parameters and a cultural landscape full of diversified coexistence.