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Apr 10
Tacet.
Mark and Eli very kindly helped me with this entry in my It Took Seconds MP3 blogging project, a performance (and something of a bastardisation!) of John Cage’s most famous piece.
Mark and Eli very kindly helped me with this entry in my It Took Seconds MP3 blogging project, a performance (and something of a bastardisation!) of John Cage’s most famous piece.
Interesting stuff. Regarding the supposedly arbitrary duration, I read that 4mins 33secs, or 273secs, was a deliberate reference to -273ºC, or absolute zero (the temperature at which there is a theoretical absence of all thermal energy, where everything just stops). But then again, whoever wrote that might’ve just been making it up.