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Originally Posted by Chula Vista
If it were "played" in an anechoic chamber there'd be nothing. Nada. Zilch. Silence.
No sound whatsoever.
Case closed.
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Originally Posted by Chula Vista
We have one at my work. Being inside of it is freaky. It's makes some people wig out a bit.
You just proved yourself wrong. For it to be performed there has to be a performer an in most cases there would be an audience. So there would be lots of noise.
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Originally Posted by Chula Vista
Does the fact that it was the noted experimental musician John Cage that was behind 4'33 lend it extra credence for those of you proclaiming it as music?
Imagine that Cage never did the piece.
It's 1986 and the horrid hair metal band Poison releases an album that contains a 3 minute cut of pure silence. And they go on to "perform" it on their subsequent tour.
Would you all be here today validating Poison?
I don't have to like an artist to defend its art as art. I've learned a lot about Cage from both his writings and others', so a lot of my points are coming from Cage himself. I'm of the opinion that it's not up to the listener to decide that it's music, it's the artist. So yes, I would defend Poison if that's the case, but I probably wouldn't be able to go on at such length about it because I don't know much about Poison apart from the fact that their music is **** and one of them got into reality tv.
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