[Nettime-bold] Re: <nettime> Does John Cage have a copyright on recordedsilence?

[domiziana giordano <domiziana@mail.nexus.it>]

> Date: Thu, 4 Jul 2002 10:17:00 -0400
> From: Randall Packer <rpacker@zakros.com>
> Subject: Look at the Score
> 
> John Cage indicated in the score of 4'33" that the composition is to be
> performed by "any combination of instruments for any duration of time."


Silence -as a note- is the only musical term referable to the Epimenide's
paradox 
Silence exist only when a noise occurs.


> John Cage never suggested that he "owns" silence, but rather his piece is
> an acknowledgement of silence - and the noises that occur in that duration
> - as occupying musical time.

Cage is the first and ineluctable example of "copyleft".


> 
> Randall

Dg
-Domiziana Giordano-


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