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Bernard Chasan <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>It seems to me that there is an interesting philosophical question to be
>considered here. If 4'33" is played in an isolated clearing in the woods,
>so that no listeners are present, will it still make no sound?
That would be easy to figure out, with the standard way the problem seems
to be solved her: Just hide microphones in the woods.
Unfourtunatley the player can't either be present. And as not even he
(then=nobody) is present nobody can likely know in what isolated clearing
of the woods the performance will take place. So microphones need to
be put out everywhere in all woods to catch the answer on this tricky
question, and that will be extremely expensive and require and extreme
ammount of work from many people. Who could know that *nothing* would
raise so much practical problems?
To these clearly detectable problems will of course come a bunch of other
chain-problems, like:
1) what to do with all microphones and stuff after the performance has been
recorded?
2) protests from environment-activists who protest against animals who get
scared up by microphones which deprive them the right to have their privacy
and integrity respected
3) The risk that the microphones get misused by malicious foregin powers
who want to detect our military movements.
4) The cost in economic resources and lives of 4,33 millions of people
who get killed in the following war against these foregin powers (not to
mention the costs of imprisionment of millions ants, bears, deers, elks and
antilopes which will urinatively mark their areas on the new icons, and
thereby be guilty of sabotauge of military equipment)
BUT, breathe calmly and deeply, all these problems you can risk, because
all those microphones all over all woods might give us a chance to detect
the very shy animal that grants the validity of the modernism in the arts:
THE 12-TONE BIRDS!!!
THE ATONAL BIRD FOR PRESIDENT!!! MORE MICROPHONES!!!!!
Mats Norrman
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