Klarinet Archive - Posting 000664.txt from 2001/09

From: Bilwright@-----.net (William Wright)
Subj: Re: [kl] Jeering about Cage
Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2001 18:54:42 -0400

<><> Tony Pay wrote:
[snip] 4'33" [snip]

Being serious for a moment, I'm unaware of what this piece really is.
People appeared to have posted about an extended interval of silence
with no music, and you have described it (if I understand you correctly)
as a mime performance a la Marcel Marceau.

For those of us who don't know, could you describe 4'33"?

I'm also trying to imagine 100 metronomes. I assume that they were set
to different but constant tempi such that they drifted into and out of
phase in an interesting way?

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