Scholarly discussion of the music of John Cage.

["David Miller" <>]

I don't know if anyone has mentioned this yet, but there's also the very
interesting One/3 (can't do superscript numbers here). The full title is
One3 = 4' 33" (0' 00") + [treble clef]. This appears to be a one-sentence
composition, unpublished? The text is "Arrange the soundsystem so that the
whole hall is on the edge of feedback, without actually feeding back."

Found in Andre Chaudron's worklist: http://www.johncage.info/index2.html.

David M.
Jamaica Plain, Mass.

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> Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2011 08:47:16 -0400
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> Subject: [silence] more on 0'00", in 'For the Birds'
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> Cage and Charles go on to talk about Cage's third 'silent' piece which
> involves two or more people playing a game such as chess, with actions
> again highly amplified. "A bridge or chess match, or any game at all, can
> become a distinct—another essentially silent—musical work."Does this third
> 'silent' piece exist as a published score? Perhaps this connects somehow
> with Reunion (also 1968), although in that collaborative performance the
> game players' actions were not amplified.
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> Undoubtedly. Cage would not repeat himself, like he did not repeat himself
> passing from 4'33'' to 0'00''. So, 4'33'' is a transformation of "silence"
> into sound (in fact bringing sound into focus), 0'00'' a transformation of
> an action into sound, and "Reunion" a transformation (in fact, a
> translation) of action(s) into other action(s) and sound(s). Makes perfect
> sense. Or it's like "seeing" sound (which also reminds me of the silent
> television of the last Europera).