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(That’s a sentence I never thought I would type.)
This blog is named for 4′33″, John Cage’s famous “silent piece” and a work with which I’ve been mildly obsessed ever since reading Cage’s book/manifesto Silence as a college freshman. Today, iTunes offered part of 4′33″ as a free download. Which, of course, is awesome. If you have iTunes, download it here.
Granted, it’s only the first movement (one minute and forty-six seconds). I imagine you’ll have to pay if you want movements two and three, although you should probably know that the musical material in the rest of the work is rather derivative of that in the first movement.
April 1st, 2009 at 5:53 pm
I love the fact that you can download movements II and II from iTunes as ringtones.
April 1st, 2009 at 5:54 pm
OMGWTFBBQ, it’s like Xmas for your blog!!!!
“The musical material in the rest of the work is rather derivative of that in the first movement” — chortle, chortle. I love the fact that they’re only giving away the 1st movement. Brilliant.
April 5th, 2009 at 2:09 pm
You’d have to use the ring + vibrate feature on your phone to know you have a call coming. Or, it could be a clever excuse for not answering your calls. Brilliant!