5 Apr
2007
5 Apr
'07
8:10 p.m.
Ivica Ico Bukvic escribe:
Actually, no. The points are (more or less in the
order of importance)
recontextualization of silence, exploration of indeterminacy, and
relinquishing the control over the creative process (which is to some extent
an outgrowth of the second point).
"There is no evidence supporting the sometimes-made claim that Cage
chose the length deliberately, four minutes and thirty-three seconds
being 273 seconds and absolute zero being a temperature of -273 °C."
[1]Here you can download the piece in MIDI, OGG and WAV
formats. Funnily the MIDI version is only 39 bytes long. :)