#4'33

[engagemythrusters]

for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction, so that means to combat John Cage's 4'33, I propose a piece called 3'44, wherein every single note within range possible is played for three minutes and forty-four seconds

[youneedtostudyives]

It is so Over lmfaoooo

[cherry-sandwich]

someone should use a cut of 4′33 as their routine music. just for fun. idc which sport

[galerymod]

'Silence is something that starts in your mind.

In physical terms, there is no silence.

mod

It's hard to believe, but everything is quieter today than it was thirty years ago, trains, cars, computers and so far we have the feeling that it has become louder.

Everyone is constantly busy these days, and it starts in the morning with breakfast, checking mobile phones, reading news, chatting, posting, never resting, always busy with work, sport, events, checking what's on, mobile phones always in view, making sure we don't miss anything. Friends, social media, what's going on, everywhere and at all times, without a break until late at night.

A little sleep and the hamster wheel begins again..... Day after day...... without peace and quiet.

The initial evaluation of noise is not negative, noise is evaluated negatively by those who perceive it.

For one person heavy metal is noise and for another it is not. It takes place within ourselves to perceive it as such.

It's the same with silence, because we can no longer enjoy silence due to the constant need to occupy ourselves.

Silence comes from standing still, remaining still, keeping still.

If you want to experience silence, you first have to let your thoughts sink in, to put it simply.

Silence can be unbearable if you can't find the peace to endure it.

In silence we fall back on ourselves and ideally we become the silence.

A walk in the woods can create silence or you can experience it. Although the forest is never quiet, it is full of sounds, cracking, chirping, rustling and so on.

But ideally we perceive this as silence. Silence has nothing to do with soundlessness.

Those who are at peace with themselves can experience silence everywhere, even in a noisy city.

But those who are not used to silence should seek it in seclusion, a church, a quiet place or room are the best starting point to find silence.

Silence takes place in our heads and in our minds.

mod

4′33″ (four minutes, thirty-three seconds or four thirty-three) is a "silent" piece of music in three movements written in 1952 by the American avant-garde composer John Cage. As not a single note is played for the entire duration of the composition, its performance challenges the conventional notion of music. 4′33″ has thus become a key work of New Music and inspires listeners, composers and performers alike to reflect on music and silence.

Wikipedia

Why is the piece of music "4'33" by John Cage so famous?

Probably for the first time in the history of modern music, the behaviour of the audience became more important for a single work than what was happening on stage. A collective meditation on silence that had a huge impact on pop culture.

The rolling stone magazine

Meditation is to be aware of every thought and of every feeling, never to say it is right or wrong, but just to watch it and move with it. In that watching, you begin to understand the whole movement of thought and feeling. And out of this awareness comes silence.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

There is no such thing as an empty space or an empty time. There is always something to see, something to hear. In fact, try as we may to make a silence, we cannot.

John Cage

If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all.

John Cage

[beccacantdraw]

Vinyl Cover Designs for John Cage's 4'33

[scherzokinn]

Data studying John Cage's 4'33"

Original scene source

[brechtian]

k castlist for Ophelia came out 36 hours ago it's time to make my show playlist. send ur most hamlet and ophelia coded song suggestions

[gregdotorg]

A Columbia University professor lamented in his NYT newsletter that he was unable to teach John Cage's 4'33" to his humanities class last week because of the noise of the protestors outside.

The rest of his newsletter was about how the noise disproved the pro-Palestinian students' claim of holding a "peaceful" protest, and thus calling in NYPD and the draconian punishments of the university itself were justified.

[the-hurdy-gurdy-man]

In defense of John Cage's 4'33".

You've probably heard of John Cage's infamous "four minutes and thirty three seconds of silence" or the classical music piece where a guy sits at a piano for four and a half minutes. Often, I hear people joke that this is "anti music" or somehow a hatred of music, but 4'33" is actually a celebration of sound, and a supreme love for music, and I think that meaning gets severely misunderstood.

John Cage actually wrote extensively about this piece, as well as the idea of "silence" in general, so hopefully these excerpts + my own interpretation can help you all appreciate this piece for being as impactful as it really is.

From John Cage's Silence: Lectures and Writings (1961)

Essentially, what Cage is saying here is what we normally perceive to be "silence" isn't really truly silence at all, we just don't really pay attention to it. It's impossible to have complete silence. You can never have "nothing" because the very concept of "nothing" is "something".

From the Wikipedia article on 4'33":

Right now, you probably have some sort of sound playing in your head right now. A song, perhaps? Caught in your ear? Maybe even a voice, or a phrase.

Turn it off.

Honestly, just turn it off for a moment.

Scary, right?

That is the purpose of 4'33". It's trying to get the "silence" to be "the thing that plays in your head" because you start to hear things that were imperceptible to you before.

If this reminds you of meditation, it's supposed to! John Cage was REALLY interested in Buddhism (especially Japanese Zen Buddhism), and a lot of those teachings are very prevalent all throughout his music.

So here's 4'33" again. Wait. Sit and listen to the entire thing. When it gets boring, wait just a little longer. If it keeps being boring, wait longer than that. And listen. Really listen. Feel your heartbeat, hear that song playing on repeat in the back of your head fade away into nothingness as you let the world settle into you. As you hear the crowd sit awkwardly, coughing, the world suddenly begins to feel real and the gravity of it all is honestly somewhat overwhelming.

I really love this definition that Cage gives about music (in that same book about silence). It's very poetic in a way that I think we don't often think of it. That as art, it's meant to express the human experience, and the the idea of "living in the present" is so embodied by this work, I think it's a shame we don't talk about that more.

[mr-craig]

A song beyond the range of human hearing, please :)

4'33" by John Cage. (The only answer I could possibly give to this question!)

[nyctarian]

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[forgottenbones]

trying to watch the controversial video before it gets deleted

[eurovision-revisited]

Eurovision 2002 - Number 33 - Klub 4' 33 - "Ave Maria Laudata"

Now this is different. Choral pop doesn't often crop up in national finals, but when it does, it's often in Croatia. Well twice. Ave Maria Laudata (Hail Mary, be praised) doubles down on that by being overtly Catholic and at least partly in Latin. It's trying to bring the whole church, incense, candles, genuflection and all, into Eurovision.

Both this song and Klub 4'33"/Grupa 4'33" are the brainchild of Aleksandar Valenčić, composer, producer and arranger from Croatia, who was in Trio Rio and Battifiaca in the 1980s and 1990s. He has credits on a wide variety of Croatian music releases throughout the late 1990s and early 2000s. Along with Diana Grgurić, who I presume is one of Grupa 4'33", he wrote and arranged not only this song, but an entire album of similar songs, DisCoral, all with Latin titles.

Given the group are named for John Cage's famous piece 4'33" in which silence is performed for that length of time and the audience listen to the ambient noises of the venue in which it's being performed, it's odd that the only credit I can find for this song and the album that might mention who the members of Grupa 4'33" is Diana. I'm not even 100% sure that she is singing here. All the sources I can find are silent on who these six women are.

As I understand it, this was supposed to be something of a fan favourite at the time, however in the 20 song final of Dora it accrued only 16 points and finished joint 14th. Those points were from a wide variety of places including four televoting regions, five regional juries, an Internet vote and a separate expert jury. Each of these gave the standard Eurovision points breakdown, and those 16 points came from a variety of sources, including 3 points from the Internet. Not such a fan favourite after all.

The group didn't try entering Dora again and as it was a one-off album with some performances attached, I suspect that after this the group went it separate ways as Aleksandar turned to different projects. Ave Maria Laudata remains one of the only ever choral entries for a national final.

[spectrum-core]

If people ask me why I still use newgrounds in 2023 the reason is because where else I'm gonna get engagement like this

[schibborasso]

4'33'' silence is a note in itself ...

[thiefofrose]

「4′33″」 is a close range, humanoid stand that resembles a broken concrete statue with a rebar skeleton visible through the cracks, as well as its hand being twisted rebar, ending in 3 claw like appendages. 

Internal Hume.  「4′33″」 's main ability is to increase or decrease the user's internal hume levels, affecting how real the user is. If the user as low hume levels, they become harder to notice and could pass through certain walls and physical barriers, tho they become more vulnerable to supernatural abilities such as stands, as well as a decreased ability to physically act upon objects and people. If their hume levels is high, they become more resistants to supernatural abilities and physical damage, but reality trying to equalise local hume will start unraveling around the user to a speed proportional to the difference in hume, this translates into an unraveling of local physics as well as hallucinations for everyone in the affected area. A higher hume level also makes  「4′33″」 visible to non stand users.

Rebar Claws. 「4′33″」 has rebar claws that can shred through most solid material, with a higher hume level of the user translating into higher destructive power.  Stats: Destructive Power: B Speed: C Endurance: A Precision: C Range: E Development Potential: A

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