Comments on: Tacet-Mobile http://grandtextauto.org/2007/01/06/tacet-mobile/ A group blog about computer narrative, games, poetry, and art. Thu, 30 Sep 2010 22:43:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: Lucas http://grandtextauto.org/2007/01/06/tacet-mobile/comment-page-1/#comment-259973 Lucas Fri, 30 May 2008 07:13:56 +0000 http://grandtextauto.org/?p=1406#comment-259973 in 2002, in Melbourne, a special performance of 4'33" was staged to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the work. audience members were encouraged to leave their mobile phones switched on. i would like to know if that is a standard for the performance of the work nowdays - it doesn't seem like it happened here: http://www.last.fm/music/John+Cage/+videos/+1-hUJagb7hL0E but it seems to me that the use of the mobile phone is very much caught up in the problematics of the experience of time and the present moment which cage was so engaged with. I think he would have disliked the mobile phone (somewhere he wrote of his disgust for the sony walkman when it first came out)... in 2002, in Melbourne, a special performance of 4’33″ was staged to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the work. audience members were encouraged to leave their mobile phones switched on.

i would like to know if that is a standard for the performance of the work nowdays – it doesn’t seem like it happened here:
http://www.last.fm/music/John+Cage/+videos/+1-hUJagb7hL0E

but it seems to me that the use of the mobile phone is very much caught up in the problematics of the experience of time and the present moment which cage was so engaged with. I think he would have disliked the mobile phone (somewhere he wrote of his disgust for the sony walkman when it first came out)…

]]> By: CmdrSlack.com » John Cage — 4′ 33″ The Ringtone. http://grandtextauto.org/2007/01/06/tacet-mobile/comment-page-1/#comment-105517 CmdrSlack.com » John Cage — 4′ 33″ The Ringtone. Mon, 08 Jan 2007 00:06:58 +0000 http://grandtextauto.org/?p=1406#comment-105517 [...] Thanks to Raph, I’ve been re-exposed to Grand Text Auto.  The post?  A downloadable ringtone that is John Cage’s 4′ 33″ — it’ll [...] [...]

Thanks to Raph, I’ve been re-exposed to Grand Text Auto.  The post?  A downloadable ringtone that is John Cage’s 4′ 33″ — it’ll [...]

]]> By: Scott Kim http://grandtextauto.org/2007/01/06/tacet-mobile/comment-page-1/#comment-105476 Scott Kim Sun, 07 Jan 2007 06:22:57 +0000 http://grandtextauto.org/?p=1406#comment-105476 Having performed the piece several times, 4'33" is a silly idea that is often quite interesting in practice -- you start listening to the environment that you had been trying to tune out, and realize that there is no such thing as complete silence. Cage to me was all about the act of listening. And when it comes to cellphones an interesting thing is happening -- every sound is now potentially a ringtone, so our ears are being trained to listen for anything and everything as if it were calling us. As a friend once put it, the world is our phonebooth. Having performed the piece several times, 4’33″ is a silly idea that is often quite interesting in practice — you start listening to the environment that you had been trying to tune out, and realize that there is no such thing as complete silence. Cage to me was all about the act of listening. And when it comes to cellphones an interesting thing is happening — every sound is now potentially a ringtone, so our ears are being trained to listen for anything and everything as if it were calling us. As a friend once put it, the world is our phonebooth.

]]> By: Raph’s Website » It had to happen http://grandtextauto.org/2007/01/06/tacet-mobile/comment-page-1/#comment-105443 Raph’s Website » It had to happen Sat, 06 Jan 2007 20:28:01 +0000 http://grandtextauto.org/?p=1406#comment-105443 [...] It had to happen John Cage’s 4′33″ as a ringtone. (Yes, it’s a little tongue in c [...] [...]

It had to happen

John Cage’s 4′33″ as a ringtone. (Yes, it’s a little tongue in c [...]

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