Interpretting 4:33 (i turned this in for class, sorry)

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Interpretting 4:33 (i turned this in for class, sorry)

wayoutwalt
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0 posted 2002-05-04 12:03 PM

wayoutwalt
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1 posted 2002-05-04 12:39 PM

Author: John Cage
Piece: "4:33"

Point: The piece is 4 minutes and 33 seconds of silence. The sound is made when the audience gets restless and they start to shuffle, talk, and for some: walk out. Proof that even in silence there is sound.

My Poem: Was supposed to interpret a piece of art or the like so I chose "4:33". In the poem I turned in, I ran a blank piece of paper through the printer and it left some "incidental" lines of ink. This I called my "incidental poetry" mocking Cage's "incidental sound". My assignment called for taking a stand on the issue so I stepped on the piece of paper and stood on it as well. It was true genius, I tell you, but my detractors said my prof would hate it. Hehehhe he laughed his head off and I got an A. tppppppppppppht

Poet deVine

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2 posted 2002-05-04 12:43 PM

Brilliant!!! LOL

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3 posted 2002-05-04 10:38 AM

walt...the reader as well as the author has the right to see each piece of art as it touches them and only them...BRAVO...THE BEAUTY IN STILLNESS...helen

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4 posted 2002-05-05 06:41 PM

ya coo! how easy it must be, to not have to write a poem that happened to be your last assignment. ahhhhhhhhh! very creativelee!

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5 posted 2002-05-06 01:37 AM

clever, and LOVED your *ahem* interpretation.

Chris

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6 posted 2002-05-06 02:47 PM

I have only one thing to say about this. . .










(and that Cage would be proud. . . )

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[This message has been edited by Sven (05-06-2002 02:49 PM).]

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