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Re:John Cage recital set to last 639 years recently witnesse... by tokai on Thursday April 03, 2025 @01:22PM (#43572794)
Check out his other work 4'33". It's an even more extreme try at silence as music.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4%E2%80%B233%E2%80%B3

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Re:John Cage recital set to last 639 years recently witnesse... by goldchainposse on Thursday April 03, 2025 @04:51PM (#43575224)
It looks like this is his gimmick.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4%E2%80%B233%E2%80%B3#/media/F...

Haters gonna hate, but there's not much more to his work than using extreme pauses and tempos as art. Maybe it's meta art.

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Re:John Cage recital set to last 639 years recently witnesse... by vixen99 on Friday April 04, 2025 @01:59AM (#43578796)
It certainly got him attention.
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