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Am I the only person who didn't know that 4'33" was...

[(Anonymous)]

... somebody sitting in silence for the duration?

I've seen so much said about the stories, mostly bad, that I got curious what the song could be about. Learn something new, and useless, every day.

Re: Am I the only person who didn't know that 4'33" was...

[(Anonymous)]

If they were really clever they would’ve treated a blank doc in madness and thats it.

Or the word silence 1k times

Re: Am I the only person who didn't know that 4'33" was...

[(Anonymous)]

ayrt

It's just . . . so fucking dumb.

Re: Am I the only person who didn't know that 4'33" was...

[(Anonymous)]

ayrt

You aren’t wrong, but this is the exchange where people gleefully write Blue Soup fic and shit like FFA RPF. What are you expecting here?

Re: Am I the only person who didn't know that 4'33" was...

[(Anonymous)]

ayrt

Oh, I expect this kind of thing. Look how many fics untited goose game got this year, and yeah, infidel blue crap. But I've discovered some pretty cool music videos through Yuletide, and I'm just still stunned protracted silence could become a thing at all.

Re: Am I the only person who didn't know that 4'33" was...

[(Anonymous)]

But Coalie, it's not silence, it's the sounds on the theater. Or, something. IDK. It's Art.

(I have also never really gotten it, but most of the music theory people I know are very into it. Or at least hate it a lot for more principles reasons than "but why," lol.)

Re: Am I the only person who didn't know that 4'33" was...

[(Anonymous)]

neither of these would be within the rules.

Re: Am I the only person who didn't know that 4'33" was...

[(Anonymous)]

The madness one would be fine.

Re: Am I the only person who didn't know that 4'33" was...

[(Anonymous)]

The silence word one would be fine in madness, too, and you might be able to argue it into the main collection, even.

Re: Am I the only person who didn't know that 4'33" was...

[(Anonymous)]

Somebody gifted their recip a recording of them performing it.

Re: Am I the only person who didn't know that 4'33" was...

[(Anonymous)]

Love it.

Re: Am I the only person who didn't know that 4'33" was...

[(Anonymous)]

They did? I'm kind of delighted by that.

Re: Am I the only person who didn't know that 4'33" was...

[(Anonymous)]

I once performed it with my orchestra.

It's a pretty strange experience to sit in silence this long in a concert hall with 300 other people. The first minute you are busy surpressing your laughter and the rest stretches on and on forever.

I always feel a bit silly to admit it because it's so ridiculous, but I kinda liked it.

Re: Am I the only person who didn't know that 4'33" was...

[(Anonymous)]

I'm so glad we have a place for people to confess they liked performing 4'33" now.