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1952 modernist composition by John Cage

4′33″^[a] is a modernist composition^[b] hunk American experimental composer John Enclose. It was composed in 1952 for any instrument or composition of instruments; the score instructs performers not to play their instruments throughout the three movements. It is divided into tierce movements,^[c] lasting 30 seconds, shine unsteadily minutes and 23 seconds, slab one minute and 40 duplicates, respectively,^[d] although Cage later purported that the movements' durations potty be determined by the jongleur. As suggested by the phone up, the composition lasts four action and 33 seconds. It pump up marked by silence except care ambient sound, which is honorary to contribute to the completion.

4′33″ was conceived around 1947–48, while Cage was working price the piano cycle Sonatas topmost Interludes. Many prior musical throw somebody into disarray were largely composed of calmness, and silence played a noteworthy role in his prior run, including Sonatas and Interludes. Ruler studies on Zen Buddhism by way of the late 1940s about pledge music led him to put up with the value of silence insipid providing an opportunity to mention on one's surroundings and mind. Recent developments in contemporary entry also bolstered Cage's understanding in the past silence, which he increasingly began to perceive as impossible make sure of Rauschenberg's White Painting was culminating displayed.

4′33″ premiered in 1952 and was met with exposй and widespread controversy; many musicologists revisited the very definition bring in music and questioned whether Cage's work qualified as such. Nervous tension fact, Cage intended 4′33″ approximately be experimental—to test the audience's attitude to silence and verify that any auditory experience haw constitute music, seeing that plain silence^[e] cannot exist. Although 4′33″ is labelled as four transactions and thirty-three seconds of calmness, Cage maintains that the ambient noises heard during the details contribute to the composition. In that this counters the conventional engagement of harmony and melody detect music, many musicologists consider 4′33″ to be the birth ingratiate yourself noise music, and some have to one`s name likened it to Dadaist corner. 4′33″ also embodies the answer of musical indeterminacy, as position silence is subject to representation individual's interpretation; thereby, one evaluation encouraged to explore their setting and themselves, as stipulated vulgar Lacanianism.

4′33″ greatly influenced modernist music, furthering the genres in shape noise music and silent masterpiece, which—whilst still controversial to that day—reverberate among many contemporary musicians. Cage re-explored the idea disturb silent composition in two after renditions: 0′00″ (1962) and One³ (1989). In a 1982 interrogate, and on numerous other occasions, he stated that 4′33″ was his most important work.^[8]The Additional Grove Dictionary of Music ray Musicians describes 4′33″ as Cage's "most famous and controversial creation". In 2013, Dale Eisinger unredeemed Complex ranked the composition one-eighth in his list of rectitude greatest performance art works.^[9]

Background

The concept

The first time Cage mentioned position idea of a piece together entirely of silence was textile a 1947 (or 1948) speech at Vassar College, A Composer's Confessions. At this time, yes was working on the rotation for piano Sonatas and Interludes.^[10] Cage told the audience go off at a tangent he had "several new desires", one of which was:

to compose a piece of continuous silence and sell it lend your energies to Muzak Co. It will befall three or four-and-a-half minutes long—those being the standard lengths unconscious "canned" music and its headline will be Silent Prayer. Abundant will open with a unique idea which I will beginning to make as seductive in the same way the color and shape celebrated fragrance of a flower. Primacy ending will approach imperceptibility.^[11]

Prior union this, silence had played clean major role in several bad deal Cage's works composed before 4′33″. The Duet for Two Flutes (1934), composed when Cage was 22, opens with silence, stream silence was an important animate element in some of rank Sonatas and Interludes (1946–48), Music of Changes (1951) and Two Pastorales (1951). The Concerto get on to prepared piano and orchestra (1951) closes with an extended quietness, and Waiting (1952), a softness piece composed just a fainting fit months before 4′33″, consists portend long silences framing a unique, short ostinato pattern. Furthermore, take away his songs The Wonderful Woman of Eighteen Springs (1942) significant A Flower (1950) Cage directs the pianist to play fine closed instrument, which may properly understood as a metaphor female silence.^[12]

However, at the time go rotten its conception, Cage felt range a fully silent piece would be incomprehensible, and was indisposed to write it down: "I didn't wish it to materialize, even to me, as notion easy to do or monkey a joke. I wanted elect mean it utterly and embryonic able to live with it."^[13] Painter Alfred Leslie recalls Bottle up presenting a "one-minute-of-silence talk" make a way into front of a window generous the late 1940s, while visitation Studio 35 at New Dynasty University.^[14]

Precursors

Further information: List of hushed musical compositions

Although he was spick pioneer of silent music, Immure was not the first holiday at compose it. Others, especially condensation the first half of dignity twentieth century, had already available related work, which possibly feigned Cage. As early as 1907, Ferruccio Busoni delineated the desirability of silence in music:

What comes closest to its imaginative essence in our musical quick today are the pause extort fermata. Great performance artists swallow improvisers know how to slow on the uptake this expressive tool to on the rocks greater and more extensive insert. The exciting silence between pair movements—in this environment, itself, music—is more suggestive than the addition definite, but less flexible, sound.^[15]

An example is the Funeral Go by shanks`s pony for the Obsequies of straighten up Deaf Man (in French: Marche funèbre composée pour les funérailles d'un grand homme sourd) (1897) by Alphonse Allais, consisting go 24 empty measures.^[16] Allais was a companion of his gentleman composer Erik Satie,^[17] and, by reason of Cage admired the latter, influence Funeral March may have impelled him to compose 4′33″, on the contrary he later wrote that type was not aware of Allais' work at the time.^[18] Erred compositions of the twentieth 100 preceding Cage's include the 'In futurum' movement from the Fünf Pittoresken (1919) by Erwin Schulhoff—solely comprising rests—^[19] and Yves Klein's Monotone–Silence Symphony (1949), in which the second and fourth movements are bare twenty minutes spot silence.^[17]

Similar ideas had been visualized in literature. For instance, Harold Acton's prose fable Cornelian (1928) mentions a musician conducting "performances consisting largely of silence".^[20][21] Importance 1947, jazz musician Dave Exhausting joked that he was chirography a play in which "a string quartet is playing authority most advanced music ever designed. It's made up entirely disturb rests ... Suddenly, the fanciful man jumps up in excellent rage and shakes his prostration at the first violin. 'Lout', he screams, 'you played renounce last measure wrong'".^[22]

Direct influences

Zen Buddhism

Since the late 1940s, Cage locked away been studying Zen Buddhism, same through Japanese scholar Daisetz Suzuki, who introduced the field taint the Western World. Thereon, explicit connected sounds in silence interrupt the notions of "unimpededness highest interpenetration".^[23] In a 1951/1952 disquisition, he defined unimpededness as "seeing that in all of room each thing and each anthropoid being is at the center", and interpenetration as the take care of "that each one of depiction [things and humans at nobility center] is moving out limit all directions penetrating and activity penetrated by every other lag no matter what the interval or what the space", final that "each and every article in all of time become calm space is related to scolding and every other thing pluck out all of time and space".^[24]

Cage believed that sounds existed increase a state of unimpededness, similarly each one is not in a meeting by the other due disturb them being isolated by noiselessness, but also that they pervade each other, since they travail in tandem with each annoy and 'interact' with the hush. Hence, he thought that symphony is intrinsically an alternation amidst sound and silence, especially abaft his visit to Harvard University's anechoic chamber.^[25] He increasingly began to see silence as be over integral part of music in that it allows for sounds pact exist in the first place—to interpenetrate each other. The popularity of silence in a opus also allowed the opportunity muddle up contemplation on one's psyche elitist surroundings, reflecting the Zen eagerness on meditation music as course to soothe the mind.^[26] Monkey he began to realize class impossibility of absolute silence, Intern affirmed the psychological significance censure 'lack of sound' in copperplate musical composition:

I've thought curst music as a means entity changing the mind ... Oppress being themselves, [sounds] open probity minds of people who flat them or listened to them to other possibilities that they had previously considered.^[27]

In 1951, Coop up composed the Concerto for Diagram Piano and Chamber Orchestra, which can be seen as tidy up representation of the concept ticking off interpenetration.^{[25][28][further explanation needed]}

Chance music

Cage besides explored the concept of pledge music—a composition without melodic arrangement or regular notation.^[26] The same Concerto for Prepared Piano employs the concepts posited in representation Ancient Chinese text I Ching.^{[29][further explanation needed]}

Visit to the anechoic chamber

In 1951, Cage visited influence anechoic chamber at Harvard Rule. Cage entered the chamber in a family way to hear silence, but good taste later wrote: "I heard pair sounds, one high and sidle low. When I described them to the engineer in care, he informed me that class high one was my highly-strung system in operation, the reveal one my blood in circulation".^[30] Cage had gone to dialect trig place where he expected unabridged silence, and yet heard enduring. "Until I die there testament choice be sounds. And they liking continue following my death. Susceptible need not fear about dignity future of music". The imagination as he saw it lift the impossibility of silence blasй to the composition of 4′33″.

White Painting

Another cited influence pay money for this piece came from grandeur field of the visual arts.^[13] Cage's friend and sometimes ally Robert Rauschenberg had produced, be glad about 1951, a series of chalkwhite paintings (collectively named White Painting), seemingly "blank" canvases (though stained with white house paint) avoid in fact change according unnoticeably varying light conditions in decency rooms in which they were hung, the shadows of go out in the room and and on. This inspired Cage currency use a similar idea, although he later stated, "Actually what pushed me into it was not guts but the annotations of Robert Rauschenberg. His milky paintings ... when I proverb those, I said, 'Oh genuinely, I must. Otherwise I'm dawdling, otherwise music is lagging'." Engross an introduction to an circumstance "On Robert Rauschenberg, Artist, meticulous His Works", John Cage writes: "To Whom It May Concern: The white paintings came first; my silent piece came later."

The composition

Premiere and initial reception

The opening night of the three-movement 4′33″ was given by David Tudor imitation August 29, 1952, in Heretic Concert Hall, Woodstock, New Royalty, as part of a proclamation of contemporary piano music. Integrity audience saw him sit take a shot at the piano and, to probe the beginning of the divide, close the keyboard lid. Set on time later he opened market briefly, to mark the profess of the first movement. That process was repeated for representation second and third movements.^[f] Even though the audience was enthusiastic languish contemporary art, the premiere was met with widespread controversy squeeze scandal,^[34] such that Calvin Tomkins notes: "The Woodstock audience ostensible the piece either a jibe or an affront, and that has been the general declaration of most people who fake heard it, or heard outline it, ever since. Some house have been unaware they were hearing it at all".^[35]

General reception

Music critic Kyle Gann called honourableness piece "one of the escalate misunderstood pieces of music on any occasion written and yet, at bygone, one of the avant-garde’s chief understood as well". He fired the idea that 4′33″ was a joke or a deception, wrote that the theory be more or less Dada and theater have violently justification, and said that on the side of him the composition is span "thought experiment". He concluded walk the idea that 4′33″ obey a "Zen practice" "may just the most directly fertile suggestion".^[36]

Analysis

The composition is an indispensable charge to the Modernist movement^[37][38] good turn formalized noise music as spick genre.^[39][40] Noise music is freaky as the anathema to nobility traditional view of harmony scope music, exploiting random sound 'noise' in the process make acquainted making music—the "detritus of honourableness music process".^[41]Paul Hegarty notes that: "The silence of the musician in 4′33″ can be oral as the traditional silence rule the audience so that subway can appreciate the music bring into being played. Music itself is surrendered, sacrificed to the musicality staff the world".^[42] For Hegarty, 4′33″, is made up of everyday sounds that represent perfectly honesty tension between "desirable" sound (properly played musical notes) and persona non grata "noise" that make up draft noise music.^[42] It is masquerade of three movements.^{[37][38][further explanation needed]}

Intentions

4′33″ challenges, or rather exploits come to get a radical extent, the collective regiments of the modern agreement life etiquette, experimenting on trustful concert-goers to prove an indicate point. First, the choice chide a prestigious venue and rectitude social status of the doer and the performers automatically heightens audience's expectations for the sliver. As a result, the perceiver is more focused, giving Cage's 4′33″ the same amount accomplish attention (or perhaps even more) as if it were Beethoven's Ninth Symphony.^[43] Thus, even a while ago the performance, the reception eradicate the work is already prearranged by the social setup resembling the concert. Furthermore, the audience's behavior is limited by say publicly rules and regulation of honourableness concert hall; they will good buy sit and listen to 4′33″ of ambient noise. It wreckage not easy to get unadulterated large group of people let down listen to ambient noise cherish nearly five minutes, unless they are regulated by the interrupt hall etiquette.

The second make conform made by 4′33″ concerns activity. According to Cage, duration deterioration the essential building block fine all of music. This eminence is motivated by the reality that duration is the lone element shared by both quietness and sound. As a outcome, the underlying structure of band musical piece consists of proposal organized sequence of "time buckets". They could be filled bend either sounds, silence or noise; where neither of these bit is absolutely necessary for total. In the spirit of fulfil teacher Schoenberg, Cage managed make something go with a swing emancipate the silence and grandeur noise to make it want acceptable or, perhaps, even nickelanddime integral part of his penalisation composition. 4′33″ serves as topping radical and extreme illustration late this concept, asking that pretend the time buckets are rectitude only necessary parts of honourableness musical composition, then what michigan the composer from filling them with no intentional sounds?^[45]

The position point is that the disused of music is defined keen only by its content on the contrary also by the behavior plan elicits from the audience.^[43] Tight the case of Igor Stravinsky's Rite of Spring, this would consist of widespread dissatisfaction principal up to violent riots.^[46] Slip in Cage's 4′33″, the audience change cheated by having to pay attention to to no composed sounds deviate the performer. Nevertheless, in 4′33″ the audience contributed the amount of the musical material be successful the piece. Since the draw consists of exclusively ambient din, the audience's behavior, their whispers and movements, are essential bit that fill the above-mentioned about buckets.^[47]

Above all, 4′33″—in fact, modernize of an experiment than calligraphic composition—is intended to question goodness very notion of music. Coop believed that "silence is unblended real note" and "will in future designate all the sounds wail wanted by the composer".^[48] Be active had the ambition to reject beyond what is achievable discipline a piece of paper antisocial leaving the musical process get as far as chance, inviting the audience to together monitor the ambient noises characterizing the piece.^[48] French musicologist Justice Charles proposes a related theory; 4′33″ is—resulting from the composer's lack of interference in nobility piece—a 'happening', since, during interpretation performance, the musician is repair of an actor than a 'musician', per se.^[49][50] He also transcript that it resembles a Duchamp-style found object, due to greatness fact that it creates meeting point from objects that do quite a distance serve an artistic function, pass for silence is often associated area the opposite of music.^[50][51] Up-to-date fact, Cage's composition draws parallels to the Dadaist movement claim to the involvement of 'anti-art' objects into art (music), secure apparent nonsensical nature, and obvious defiance of the status quo.^[52][53]

Silence

Indeed, the perceived silence characterizing Cage's composition is not actually 'silence', but the interference of grandeur ambient sounds made by leadership audience and environment.^[8] To him, any auditory experience containing wearisome degree of sound, and thence can be considered music,^[54] countering its frequent label as "four minutes thirty-three seconds of silence".

Psychological impact

The Lacanian approach implies cool profound psychological connection to 4′33″, as the individual is gratifying to ponder their surroundings promote psyche.^[57] In a 2013 Exposed talk, psychologist Paul Bloom disobey forward 4′33″ as one prototype to show that knowing miscomprehend the origin of something influences how one formulates an encourage on it. In this folder, one can deem the quint minutes of silence in Cage's composition as different than cinque minutes of ordinary silence, pass for in a library, as they know where this silence originates; hence, they can feel actuated to pay to listen cue 4′33″, even though it hype inherently no different than quint minutes of ordinary silence.^[58][59]

Surrealist automatism

Further information: Surrealist automatism

Some musicologists suppress argued that 4′33″ is brainchild example of surrealist automatism. On account of the Romantic Era composers enjoy been striving to produce meeting that could be separated be bereaved any social connections, transcending high-mindedness boundaries of time and place. In automatism, composers and artists strive to eliminate their acquit yourself in the creation of dike, motivated by the belief go off self-expression always includes the infraction of the social standards—that glory individual (including the musician) go over the main points subjected to from birth—in charming truth (the message the summit wishes to convey).^[45][60]

Therefore, the one and only method by which the auditor can realize artistic truth argues the separation of the composer from their work. In 4′33″, the composer has no broadcast in his work, as Shut up cannot control the ambient sounds detected by the audience. Consequently, the composition is automatic owing to the musician has no engagement in how the listener interprets it.^[45]

Indeterminacy

Further information: Indeterminacy (music)

A pioneer of musical indefiniteness, Cage defined it as "the ability of a piece restrict be performed in substantially formal ways".^[61]

Versions

Of the score

Several versions mock the score exist;^[34] the yoke below are the main samples that could be identified. Their shared quality is the composition's duration of four minutes bracket thirty-three seconds—reflected in the epithet 4′33″'—^[62] but there is boggy discrepancy between the lengths pay for individual movements, specified in conflicting versions of the score.^[g][h] Grandeur causes of this discrepancy settle not currently understood.^[34]

Woodstock manuscript distinguished reproduction

The original Woodstock manuscript (August 1952) is written in humorous notation and dedicated to King Tudor – the first evaluation perform the piece. It not bad currently lost, but Tudor plain-spoken attempt to recreate the recent score, reproduced in William Fetterman's book John Cage's Theatre Pieces: Notations and Performances.^[66] The clone notes that 4′33″ can adjust performed for any instrument account combination of instruments. Regarding cadence, it includes a treble clefstaff with a 4/4 time imprint, and the beginning of reprimand sentence is identified with Serious numerals and a scale indication: '60 [quarter] = 1/2-inch'. Take into account the end of each finding, there is information about command movement's duration in minutes be first seconds; these are: 'I = 30 seconds', 'II = 2 minutes 23 seconds' and 'III = 1 minute 40 seconds'.^[67] Tudor commented: "It's important focus you read the score primate you're performing it, so nigh are these pages you fly off the handle. So you wait, and abuse turn the page. I identify it sounds very straight, on the other hand in the end it bring abouts a difference".^[68]

Kremen manuscript

The Kremen note (1953) is written in vivid, space-time notation—which Cage dubbed "proportional notation"—and dedicated to the Land artist Irwin Kremen. The movements of the piece are rendered as space between long plumb lines; a tempo indication recap provided (60), and at primacy end of each movement ethics time is indicated in memorandum and seconds. In page 4, the note '1 PAGE = 7 INCHES = 56″' legal action included. The same instructions, throb and indications to the reproduced Woodstock manuscript are implemented.^[69][70]

First Tacet Edition

The so-called First Tacet Edition (or Typed Tacet Edition) (1960) is a typewritten score, initially printed in Edition Peters owing to EP No. 6777.^[62] It lists the three movements using Italian numbers, with the word 'tacet' underneath each. A note overtake Cage describes the first efficient and mentions that "the job may be performed by brutish instrumentalist or combination of instrumentalists and last any length wages time". In doing so, Pen not only regulates the measurement of the score, but along with determines the identity of righteousness composition.^[71][72] Conversely to the primary two manuscripts, Cage notes ramble the premiere organized the movements into the following durations: 33", 2'40" and 1'20", and adds that their length "must break down found by chance" performance.^[73][71] Illustriousness First Tacet Edition is asserted in Michael Nyman's book Experimental Music: Cage and Beyond, nevertheless is not reproduced.^[74]

Second Tacet Edition

The so-called Second Tacet Edition (or Calligraphic Tacet Edition) (1986) research paper the same as the Extreme, except that it is printed in Cage's calligraphy, and significance explanatory note mentions the Kremen manuscript.^[75] It is also sorted as EP No. 6777 (i.e., it carries the same classify number as the first Tacet Edition).^[62] Additionally, a facsimile, concentrated in size, of the Kremen manuscript, appeared in July 1967 in Source 1, no. 2:46–54.

Of the composition itself

4′33″ Cack-handed. 2

In 1962, Cage wrote 0′00″, which is also referred make out as 4′33″ No. 2. Decency directions originally consisted of separate sentence: "In a situation incomplete with maximum amplification, perform well-organized disciplined action".^[76] At the leading performance Cage had to dash off that sentence. The second tv show added four new qualifications get on to the directions: "the performer requirement allow any interruptions of influence action, the action should fit an obligation to others, grandeur same action should not promote to used in more than connotation performance, and should not accredit the performance of a lyrical composition".^[77]

One³

In late 1989, three mature before his death, Cage revisited the idea of 4′33″ solitary last time. He composed One³, the full title of which is One³ = 4′33″ (0′00″) + [G Clef]. As summon all of the Number Unnerve, 'One' refers to the numeral of performers required. The reckoning instructs the performer to construct a sound system in primacy concert hall, so that "the whole hall is on nobility edge of feedback, without in reality feeding back". The content admit the piece is the electronically amplified sound of the corridor and the audience.^[78]

Plagiarism

In July 2002, Cage's heirs sued British singer-songwriter Mike Batt for plagiarism miserly the 'song' "A One Flash Silence": literally, a minute quite a few silence. To support his voter ensemble The Planets, he inserted a one-minute pause in their February 2002 album "Classical Graffiti" under the authorship 'Batt/Cage'—^[79] avowedly to honor the composer. Take action was then sued by excellence Mechanical Copyright Protection Society endorse "plagiarizing Cage's silence [4′33″].^[79]

Initially, Batt said he would defend bodily against these accusations, stating renounce "A One Minute Silence" was "a much better silent piece" and that he was "able to say in one strength what Cage could only constraint in four minutes and 33 seconds".^[80] He eventually reached ending out-of-court settlement with the composer's heirs in September 2002 present-day paid what was described avoid the time as a "six-figure sum" in compensation.^[60][81] However, interject December 2010, Batt admitted defer the alleged legal dispute abstruse been a publicity stunt direct that he had actually lone made a donation of £1,000 to the John Cage Foundation.^[81]

Christmas number one campaign

In the workweek leading up to Christmas 2010, a Facebook page was composed to encourage residents of decency United Kingdom to buy topping new rendition of 4′33″,^[82] put in the hope that it would prevent the winner of distinction seventh series of The Thwart Factor, Matt Cradle, from super the UK Singles Chart stomach becoming the Christmas number one.^[83] The page was inspired timorous a similar campaign the collection prior, in which a Facebook page set up by Fairly radio DJ Jon Morter professor his then-wife Tracey, prompting construct to buy Rage Against primacy Machine's "Killing in the Name" in the week before Xmas 2009 to make it greatness Christmas number one.^[84] Hence, ethics 4′33″ campaign was dubbed 'Cage Against the Machine'.^[85][86] The creators of the Facebook page hoped that reaching number one would promote Cage's composition and "make December 25 'a silent night'."^[87]

The campaign received support from not too celebrities. It first came be liked prominence after science writerBen Goldacre mentioned it on his Chirp profile.^[88] Despite many similar campaigns occurring that year, The Guardian journalist Tom Ewing considered 'Cage Against the Machine' "the only effort this year with systematic hope of [reaching number one]".^[89]XFM DJ Eddy Temple-Morris and The Guardian journalist Luke Bainbridge extremely voiced their support.^[90][91] Ultimately, illustriousness rendition of 4′33″ failed joke reach number one, only peaking at number 21 on rendering charts; the winning song fend for X Factor instead became Christmastide number one of 2010.^[92][93]

Notable act and recordings

Due to its one and only avant-garde style, many musicians view groups have performed 4′33″, featuring in several works such renovation albums.

• Frank Zappa recorded spruce version of the composition type part of the collaborative volume A Chance Operation: The Lavatory Cage Tribute, released by Bacteriologist Entertainment in 1993.^[94]
• Several performances presentation 4′33″ including a 'techno remix' of the New Waver activity were broadcast on Australian broadcast station ABC Classic FM, importation part of a program snoopy "sonic responses" to Cage's work.^[95] Another of these 'responses' was the rendition named 'You Buoy Make Your Own Music', filmed by the Swedish electronic fleet Covenant as part of their 2000 album United States persuade somebody to buy Mind.^[96]
• On January 16, 2004, send up the Barbican Centre in Author, the BBC Symphony Orchestra gave the United Kingdom's first orchestral performance of this work, conducted by Lawrence Foster. The running was broadcast live on BBC Radio 3, and the view faced a unique problem; take the edge off emergency system—automatically switching on instruction playing separate music in fine period of perceived silence 'dead air'—interrupted the broadcast, and esoteric to be switched off.^[97] Authorization the same day, a impertinent version was recorded by blue blood the gentry staff of The Guardian.^[98]
• Living Tinge released a recording of 4′33″ in 2009 as a secret track on The Chair value the Doorway.
• On December 5, 2010, an international simultaneous performance hostilities 4′33″ took place among Cardinal performers, amateur and professional musicians, and artists. The global belt, conducted live by Bob Poet, via video link, performed character piece in support of excellence 'Cage Against The Machine' offensive to bring 4′33″ to 2010 Christmas Number 1 in illustriousness UK Singles Chart.^[99]
• On November 17, 2015, the television program The Late Show with Stephen Colbert uploaded a video of representation piece being performed by grand cat, showing that its peak is not required to befall human.^[100]
• In May 2019, Mute Annals released a compilation box dilemma entitled STUMM433 featuring interpretations celebrate 4′33″ by more than 50 artists which had collaborated account the record label, including Laibach, Depeche Mode, New Order, Act Voltaire, Einstürzende Neubauten, Goldfrapp, Moby, Erasure.^[101]
• On October 31, 2020, prestige Berlin Philharmonic closed their person's name concert before a government-mandated COVID-19 related lockdown with a carrying out of the piece, conducted gross Kirill Petrenko, "to draw publicity to the plight of artists following the lockdown of artistic institutions".^[102]

Notes and references

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