Tag: absolute zero

• just why 4’33”?

  

  (excerpt from the lecturer “Endlessness and the Empty Space in Music and Architecture”) John Cage’s three movement composition for any instrument or combination of instruments (1952) is probably his most famous and at the same time most controversial piece. While it nowadays even hits the charts, it was an exciter at the premiere: 4’33” obviously…

  Fabian Dembski

  October 12, 2011

  Architecture, Lecture, Music

  4’33”, absolute zero, contemporary music, empty space, endlessness, John Cage