Nick Buttler singing 4'33"

This is John Cage's 4'33". BlasianFMA played this on the piano, so this is my response. He wanted me to sing the vocal arrangement. There are lots of different arrangements of this song. If you look up 4'33" on YouTube, the first one you'll see is the orchestral arrangement. I think this is the only a cappella solo vocal arrangement on YouTube.

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• Nick
• Buttler
• Butler
• jazz
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• sing
• song
• contemporary
• classical
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• Cage
• 4'
• 33
• four
• minutes
• thirty-three
• seconds
• 33

[lokeybg]

sing "to whom it may concern" by Underoath please. It's very challenging vocally, but I think you're up to par.

[NickButtlerJazz]

Hmm...I'll listen to it and consider singing it.

[PoohBear02003]

Not nice to eat a pizza in front of someone on a diet... :)

[NickButtlerJazz]

Haha, sorry. What if I told you it was a low fat, low carb, low calorie pizza?

[carterclan02]

hey where is my pizza? lol!! wow that was a whole lot of silence there!! i keep watching thinking something was going to happen lol!! take care

mari

[NickButtlerJazz]

It's not silence. Listen. You can hear someone playing music in the room above me, you can probably hear the clock ticking, and surely you can hear the RA making the announcement about the laundry. It's the music of your surroundings.

[PockASqueeno]

Uhh...thanks?

[MrAaronThomas]

damn you nick buttler.....damn you

[PockASqueeno]

It's actually a very controversial subject to music scholars. Cage and others did this "experimental" music in the 1950s. It's called the "liberation of sound." He said, quote-on-quote, "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason."

Is this music? I don't know...and the world may never know. However, it is art, and it does have its beauty to it.

[bbstarky]

So are you really making music, or are you just listening to your surroundings? Sounds a lot like meditating to me. People have been doing that long before Mr. Cage.

[Karie0298]

lol this is hilarous

[PockASqueeno]

Thanks. I'll try to work a little on my intonation. ;-)

[DangerousRisks]

You went off key a little bit during the second movement. Other than that. You did that rather well, I must add.

[PockASqueeno]

How do you know? Maybe the stuff that looked like grease was actually water with orange food coloring...

[PoohBear02003]

Well it didn't look like a low fat, low carb, low calorie one to me... So it wouldn't help.. :)