A Rendition of John Cage's 4'33"

This is a tribute to John Cage's 4'33", a piece composed solely of ambient noise. I found it hard to keep from laughing, to be quite honest. Andy Jones and Christopher McCastle performing on konga and guitar.

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Music

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• John
• Cage
• 4'33
• Four
• Minutes
• Thirty-Three
• Seconds
• Dreaming
• Turtle
• Christopher
• McCastle

[WhoKilledCallo]

needs more cowbell.... i got a fever and the only prescription is more cowbell

[AndrewLargemanJones]

Excellent suggestion.

Next time we perform it, we will be sure to add cowbell performer to the mix.

[spyroonline175]

Keep calm, and silence.

[dispensableandyjones]

@omgwtfbbq6666 Don't get me wrong, though- I'm neither under any illusion that I've accomplished anything interesting at all with this 'performance', nor that I've accomplished much that could truly be said to be remarkable with any other. But, eh, so goes it, right? 'Twas fun, nevertheless.

[dispensableandyjones]

@omgwtfbbq6666 Yes, yes, you're probably right. At least on one level, and if I ever perform it again (which I almost certainly wouldn't, unless Chris [M. Conga] was around), I'll keep that in mind.

Still, if this is an adaptation less for a concert hall, and more for a folksy open mic at a coffee house, I'm not sure that's terribly relevant. Or, at least not relevant in quite the same way.

"Which is more musical, a truck passing by a factory, or a truck passing by a music school?"

[omgwtfbbq6666]

No but seriously, this isn't how it's supposed to be played, you cannot move when your playing silent notes, so therefore, your hands should be at the rest position.

[omgwtfbbq6666]

@AndrewLargemanJones I'm tellin you man, it needs some bass, a little more timber and maybe a singer....your never gonna achieve platinum without......it

[mitchahbw]

you got the balls! :)

[yugyuof6f67fo7]

Super! I put your video on the facebook page - JOHN CAGE'S 4'33'' FOR CHRISTMAS NUMBER ONE 2010

[fatpizzaman]

I like this song, but it got ripped off by John Lennon when he wrote the Nutopian International Anthem.

[lexo30]

@ajuk1 But you didn't write or play this. John Cage wrote it and David Tudor gave the first performance. And why does it have to 'impress' you? The C major prelude from Book 1 of the Well-Tempered Clavier is dead simple, and so is 'Anarchy in the UK' by the Sex Pistols - hardly 'impressive' music, either of them, and both of them easy to play, but nobody else thought of writing them, and they're both totally brilliant.

[lexo30]

In the spirit of constructive criticism: for one thing, this piece is in three movements, and it helps if you do it in three movements because otherwise people forget that you're doing it at all. Also, since nobody knew what you were doing, there wasn't nearly enough build-up to it, so the audience wasn't concentrating properly, so it was as if you weren't performing anything but had just taken a break for a few minutes. Otherwise, nice performance.