Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/03/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Jeremy Kime <jeremy.kime@bbc.co.uk> writes: >* Cage's most famous musical composition is entitled 4'33''. It is played at >the piano and is divided into three movements. All of the notes are silent. It should be noted that a performer of John Cage's 4'33" is to not play anything, as opposed to playing "silent notes." There's a difference. Cage believed there was no such thing as absolute silence. The point of 4'33" is that the environment, whatever that may be, provides the music for the piece. At early performances of the work, the audience would start to murmur to itself and then start getting louder, sometimes ending in angry shouts. As to CD recordings, I don't know about that. Seems like anyone interested would be perfectly capable of "performing" the piece themselves. No Leica content whatsoever, but this perhaps ties in with some of the "what is art" discussions we've had. - -- Michael Bell MBell@mail.utexas.edu