the link says the guy composed the song. but how the fuck do you compose silence?
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You can watch John Cage play it here - http://main.wgbh.org/wgbh/NTW/ES/Video/tribute340.html
come back on slsk. now.Originally posted by Sid Hartha@15 January 2004 - 16:10
Rehearsals must have been tough.
/OK I'll stop.
Have you listened to it yet? Is it any good?Originally posted by Withcheese+15 January 2004 - 16:27--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (Withcheese @ 15 January 2004 - 16:27)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-Sid Hartha@15 January 2004 - 15:09
I've searched for this, but can only find it at 128K.
Damn.
@Zed: Have you got any better links than that, that's quicktime I hate that peacenik crapola... [/b][/quote]
yeah i dont have they quick time gypsies on my pc either.
yeah i dont have they quick time gypsies on my pc either. [/b][/quote]Originally posted by Spider_dude+15 January 2004 - 15:33--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (Spider_dude @ 15 January 2004 - 15:33)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'>Originally posted by Withcheese@15 January 2004 - 16:27
<!--QuoteBegin-Sid Hartha@15 January 2004 - 15:09
I've searched for this, but can only find it at 128K.
Damn.
Have you listened to it yet? Is it any good?
@Zed: Have you got any better links than that, that's quicktime I hate that peacenik crapola...
I trust no program made by those who dodge soap.
The amazing thing is that he wrote it in 1952 - and 52 years later people still dont get it -
Hes one of the most avant garde composers of our time running along with the fluxus artists at the time (yoko ono, nam june paik, laurie anderson etc look up fluxus art its funny)
Anyway heres the your sound file (the other link was also silent)
Cage Zip file 3mb
John Cage's 4'33"
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"I have nothing to say / and I am saying it / and that is poetry / as I needed it" --John Cage
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John Cage's most famous musical composition is called 4'33".
It consists of the pianist going to the piano, and not hitting any keys for four minutes and thirty-three seconds. (He uses a stopwatch to time this.) In other words, the entire piece consists of silences -- silences of different lengths, they say.
On the one hand, as a musical piece, 4'33" leaves almost no room for the pianist's interpretation: as long as he watches the stopwatch, he can't play it too fast or too slow; he can't hit the wrong keys; he can't play it too loud, or too melodramatically, or too subduedly.
On the other hand, what you hear when you listen to 4'33" is more a matter of chance than with any other piece of music -- nothing of what you hear is anything the composer wrote.
Yes as long as it is 4.33Can I Download This Music Anywhere?
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