IO: the strangest musical composition of all time

[antietam]

has anyone heard of john cages 4:33 of silience?
he is a british conductor i think?
is this the biggest con of all time?
to hear it just stare at the screen for 4:33, the orchestra just sits there and they do nothing?










end of 4:33.....touching wasn't it!

 

[*BOOMCHAA!*]

 

[meegannie]

Yes

 

[jkayet]

deja vu.

it's "ambient sound," please.

 

[hiphop]

The fun thing about it is you can only compose a piece like that once. If you compose other pieces in the same length, they sound the same.

Do they?

 

[meegannie]

It sounds different every time it's played.

The sound of silence.

 

[Angela Harlem]

i have a random story on the sound of silence. it got an 'hello australia' award on my local radio station. who wants to hear it?

 

[meegannie]

Me!

 

[Salome]

I want to hear each and every last one of angie's stories


ANGIE!!!!!

 

[zoney!]

i have a random story on the sound of silence. it got an 'hello australia' award on my local radio station. who wants to hear it?

Bump?

 

[Headache in a Suitcase]

i took a music appreciation class in college... the prof made us listen to, i shit you not, a CD recording of this ... i was like "uh... what?" yea that's real great... 4 1/2 minutes of random coughing... BRILLIANT!

 

[*BOOMCHAA!*]

that's because your class sucked.

<---*cough cough Rock N and or Roll appreciation cough cough*

 

[nbcrusader]

i took a music appreciation class in college... the prof made us listen to, i shit you not, a CD recording of this ... i was like "uh... what?" yea that's real great... 4 1/2 minutes of random coughing... BRILLIANT!

Wouldn't that make you appreciate other music?

 

[Angela Harlem]

Haha
It wont be funny now, be warned, the mood is gone...But anyways, this girl rang and said her and her mum were arguing over what got played in the car on radio and tape etc and finally the mum got cranky and tried to turn the volume dial right down til it clicked to 'off'. However she pulled the dial off completely, breaking it. Glaring at her daughter as music blasted through the speakers, she found a blank tape and put it in. It was to become known as The Loudest Silence they Ever Heard.

It had me as it is something I would do. Nothing like loud silence static...

 

[zoney!]

we waited FOR THAT?

 

[verte76]

Strange *composition* indeed.
Nothing...............

 

[Angela Harlem]

we waited FOR THAT?

just cos i you know...love you and stuff, i'm going to keep bumping this thread

 

[JessicaAnn]

Why is this thread still lurking around the top ... this is definitely worthy of page two.

 

[Salome]

 

[*BOOMCHAA!*]

yah, I was kinda wondering that too.
it won't die.

 

[zoney!]

just cos i you know...love you and stuff, i'm going to keep bumping this thread

PLEASE don't bump this thread anymore!