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Offline shinerl

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4 minutes 33 seconds
on: January 29, 2009, 07:29:33 AM
I went to youtube and try to listen to John Cage music because I was curious.

But no sound was heard.
Nor the performers are performing.
But I am not crazy nor dreaming
Nor the speakers are damaged (I am so sure).

It is purely no sound.
I am getting crazy.
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Re: 4 minutes 33 seconds
Reply #1 on: January 29, 2009, 08:14:45 AM
Isn't that the avant-garde piece where the music is silence?

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Re: 4 minutes 33 seconds
Reply #2 on: January 29, 2009, 09:54:22 AM
Technically, it's the avant-garde piece where the music is whatever noises are made while it's being 'performed'.

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Re: 4 minutes 33 seconds
Reply #3 on: January 30, 2009, 12:37:27 AM
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Offline loonbohol

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Re: 4 minutes 33 seconds
Reply #4 on: January 30, 2009, 04:03:33 AM
Technically, it's the avant-garde piece where the music is whatever noises are made while it's being 'performed'.

He actually means that the music is made by the chatter of the audience.
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Re: 4 minutes 33 seconds
Reply #5 on: February 05, 2009, 02:30:31 AM
i second that... i think its a theorical composition, nothing to do with academic music... when it finishes, you realize the piece was made with all the noises that happened in those 4'33''... its an open piece...
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