Very Sad!!!!
even sadder is I bet these instances are artificial digital silence
- you know silence made by a machine spitting out zeroed bit's
instead of "honest to God" analog silence... It's just not the real
thing I tell you.
in case you are perplexed by this... the original (or at least "the
best") performance of Cage's "4.33" was during a live show where he
just sits motionless at his piano for 4 minutes and 33 seconds and
you get this wonderful stereo ambiance of John Cage, the orchestra
and several hundred people in the audience coughing, shuffling in
their chairs etc all in a world class concert hall, quite reveling in
both how people react to silence (most people are obviously
uncomfortable with it) and also how much a good "live" music venue's
acoustics are, in it's self, part of any performance.
On 9/2/04 7:56 PM, "Mrs C" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
February 9, 2004
Downloaders Can Get Nothing for Something From Apple
By DAVID F. GALLAGHER
he top-of-the-line iPod music player from Apple Computer can hold four solid
weeks of music. But what if you just want a little peace and quiet? As it
turns out, Apple sells that too - sounds of silence for 99 cents.
Steve Halberstadt of Raleigh, N.C., made such a purchase last week after
discovering that Apple's iTunes store, the Web's leading downloadable music
outlet, had added "The Whitey Album," a 1995 release by Ciccone Youth, a
jokey side project of the rock band Sonic Youth. The album's second track
album, "Silence," consists of 63 seconds of exactly that. (The band has
said, with tongue in cheek, that the track is a version of John Cage's
famous silent composition "4'33"," only speeded up.)
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Mark Secker Computer Support Officer
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University of Western Australia - CRICOS Provider No. 00126G
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"present day
present time"
<http://ecel-mark.ecel.uwa.edu.au/~marksecker/index.htm> (sometimes works)
