Saturday, February 13, 2010

Selling Silence

Just in time for Kyle's new book, an Acura advertisement in this week's New Yorker shows that silence can mean all sorts of different things.


No word yet if C.F. Peters or the John Cage Trust will be filing a claim. Then again, the versions of 4'33" available from Peters only include the famous "Tacet" edition, and then what they call the "proportional notation" version, the so-called "Kremen" manuscript that uses a rudimentary graphic notation. Instead, Acura is here ripping off the version used by David Tudor at the premiere, which was regular empty manuscript paper carefully measured out into the correct proportions.

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