On the off chance you are pondering the curious image above, it is the sheet music to John Cage’s famous three-movement composition, 4’33″, composed in 1952.
Why is the music for it blank, you may quite well ask.
Well, that’s because it’s 4 minutes and 33 seconds of complete and utter silence where the musicians do absolutely nothing. I’m not kidding and neither is John Cage or his numerous fans. Watch a live orchestrated version of 4’33″ for yourself below.
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The best piece of orchestral music I've ever heard!
That was very different… and quite an easy piece of music to compose I suppose…
I want my 4’33″ back
In fact I want 9’06 back because there were 2 clips