"purpleveggie" <purpleveggie@hotmail.com> writes:

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No. ;-)

Hmm. It would be interesting to have an orchestral performance of 4'33'
here on ASD,

In article <1143363224.050964.133840@t31g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>,
"purpleveggie" <purpleveggie@hotmail.com> wrote:

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Nah. Some newsreader software will stop you, but I once started a thread
called "Thread of Silence" with absolutely nothing. People joined right
in, but the problem was, their newsreaders quoted the nothing and stuck
sigs on it, then other people's newsreaders quoted the quoted, sigged
nothing and sigged that, and before you knew it, the Thread of Silence
was pretty noisy, with all the trappings of a discussion and absolutely
nothing at the bottom of it all. Which was actually kind of cool, even
though that wasn't my original idea. Not quite as good as the Virtual
Cow thread, but still pretty cool.

Now I'm remembering John Cage's book, "Silence", and the things he had
to say about silence, and why it wasn't silly at all to compose 4'33". I
performed that piece once in my room in the middle of the night, all
three movements, on a plastic alto recorder, and it was amazing the
things I heard in between the beginning and the end. I still remember
the sound of a distant ambulance siren, miles away, decades later, and
it wouldn't have even registered otherwise.

Hmm. It would be interesting to have an orchestral performance of 4'33'
here on ASD, everyone playing their parts on their instruments of choice
wherever they are at exactly the same time, and everyone afterwards
sharing what they heard.

M.

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