Re: Cage quote about 0'00"

dear david: thnk you for your investigation. but if you see the  
phrase: "The title 0'00" refers to unmeasured time." its NOT CAGE THAT  
SAID THAT ! it´s the richard... and as i say before: when a  
conteporary composer wants a piece with no time value THERE IS A SIGN  
FOR THAT and the signal is: "O" !!!

best regards
vitor rua


On 26 Oct 2011, at 09:01, David Badagnani wrote:

> From John Cage conversation with Lars Gunnar Bodin & Bengt Emil  
> Johnson, in Kostelanetz, Richard, 1988, ed., Conversing with Cage,  
> New York: Limelight., 69-70 (found at http://solomonsmusic.net/4min33se.htm)
>
> In 1962, Cage wrote a 4'33" No. 2, which is also titled 0'00", "to  
> be performed in any way by anyone". It is a completely different  
> piece. The score, entirely verbal, states, "In a situation provided  
> with maximum amplification (no feedback), perform a disciplined  
> action, with any interruptions, fulfilling in whole, or in part, an  
> obligation to others. No two performances are to be of the same  
> action, nor may any action be the performance of a 'musical  
> composition'. No attention is to be given to the situation  
> (electronic, musical theatrical)." This is a quasi-theatrical work,  
> and its primary distinction in sound is the provision of maximum  
> amplification and an indefinite length. The title 0'00" refers to  
> unmeasured time. "I'm trying to find a way to make music that does  
> not depend on time . . . . [It's] nothing but the continuation of  
> one's daily work . . . . What the piece is trying to say is that  
> everything we do is music, or can become music through the use of  
> microphones, so that everything I'm doing apart from what I'm  
> saying, produces sound."
>
> --
> David Badagnani
> Kent, Ohio
> USA