Klarinet Archive - Posting 000827.txt from 2001/09

From: "Jim Hobby" <jhobby@-----.net>
Subj: [kl] Re: Bernstein Sonata/Audience & performer (was: Cage knocks)
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2001 20:31:25 -0400

This may simply prove how provincial my tastes are, but if 4'33" and the
other period of silence pieces aren't intended as humor, they've missed a
good chance. They seem rather similar to the young woman who is showing and
marketing art that she has "painted" by squirting various colors onto
aluminum foil. She then sits in it with no clothes on. Then, to create her
"art," she "rolls" her bottom region across a canvass in the same manner the
police use to roll a fingerprint; i.e., from side to side in one motion.
IMHO, not only is it not art, and despite the fact that pressure of her body
tends to make it appear "spread", she doesn't seem to have a very attractive
derriere. (They don't appear pornographic; just ... bizarre.) She's
making money, though, since people are buying these canvasses.

I wouldn't have one of the canvasses on my wall. I wouldn't pay for a
ticket to not hear 4'33". I think they're both bizarre. Neither are
art/music.

Jim

> Bilwright@-----.net (William Wright) wrote:

> Without meaning any offense, it seems to me that 4'33" is an
> amusing gag.

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