Mute Records announce box set of 4'33 cover versions

[Darkness_Fish]

I think this is serious: http://mute.com/stumm-433

From The Normal, the artist that started Mute, to the label’s newest signing,
K Á R Y Y N, STUMM433 will feature a huge array – over 50 – of Mute artists including Depeche Mode, Yann Tiersen, Liars, Silicon Teens, Irmin Schmidt and many more, all presenting their own interpretation of one piece of music: John Cage’s game-changing composition, 4’33”.

Better than a new album by The Who, anyway.

[Count Machuki]

Oh, great, now I'm going to have that piece in my head all day.

[never/ever]

....

[naughty boy]

Oh, great, now I'm going to have that piece in my head all day.

[Sneelock]

How “Pet Rock” can you get?

[Brickyard Jack]

The best interpretation of this was by the BBC when they ran a late night series based on it a few years back - they just recorded the ambient noise in a number of different areas (I remember very vividly one recorded in a marina, so you heard gulls, the wind whipping through sail cables, lapping water and so on). It pisses me off when audiences at live renditions try to keep very quiet - they should be coughing, rustling their programmes, receiving phonecalls etc. The conductor should also be beating time,but they usually don't.

[Fonz]

It’s one of my go-to practice pieces on the piano

[Minnie the Minx]

Oh, great, now I'm going to have that piece in my head all day.

[Spock!]

It’s one of my go-to practice pieces on the piano

And my main piano performance piece - though I often go for the edited 2'10 version, which is enough for an assembly.

[yomptepi]

I am sure someone released a set of blank cdr's as exactly that about 20 years ago. Maybe Miller is going senile...

[pcqgod]

Serious question: what time signature is 4'33 in?

[pcqgod]

Serious question: what time signature is 4'33 in?

[Fonz]

4/4
Adagio

[`]

I think I'm going to hold out for the far broader range of artistic styles and musical genres covered on
Now That's What I Call 4'33.

[never/ever]

I am sure someone released a set of blank cdr's as exactly that about 20 years ago. Maybe Miller is going senile...

There's of course the completely blank LP-sides of The Wit & Wisdom Of Ronald Reagan.

Mike Batt doing something similar on one of his albums, and getting sued by the Cage-estate was hilarious too.

[Fonz]

Dave Grohl’s got his version on the next Foos disc

‘David and John: Together, at last’

“Silence, like you’ve never heard before”


With a pic of Cage photoshopped into a stock photo of the Foo Fighters (bucking the wellknown trend of the other way around)

probably