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Here is another “cover” of Cage’s 4′33″

Instruments: KEYWORDS (pulled randomly from Cynthia Selfe’s “Toward New Media Texts”); listener’s available sound/space; KEYWORD/tag generated YouTube offerings

This performance hopes to (begin to) speculate on what Cage’s “minimal compositional frame” makes possible (and perhaps consequently what the concept of “minimal compositional frame(s)” in connection with digital media might make possible for English Composition). One premise: Cage’s turn to language posits words as instruments. Subsequent premise: English Composition’s turn to “new media” begins to posit writing as action.

(I have posted Cage’s score to 4′33″ elsewhere in the blog; if you haven’t yet read it, you might, but not necessarily, go there first.)

Notes on my “transfer of responsibility for the experience”:

you could listen to the composition as is, simply push play for each movement, a contact of KEYWORDS and emergent sounds will occur if you listen…

another option…foreground your space as instrument by changing the space (turn up your speakers and move into another room, for example)…or don’t move, but alter the available sounds in your space…generally, invite new sound…

another option…foreground the YouTube instrument (via each movement’s KEYWORDS) by advancing the KEYWORD video to its end and experience each movement via the other textual/video options YouTube offers you in response to the KEYWORDS tagged to the original image…

…generally, extend this performance…

I: 33″

[youtube]8PmTLqqAzmg[/youtube]

II: 2′40″

[youtube]AjOmIhIT0J0[/youtube]

III: 1′20″

[youtube]JMU3yG1BjWE[/youtube]

What did you hear?

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