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The Multifaceted Mike Batt

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , on June 5, 2010 | 1 Comment »

For the past few weeks, Mike Batt’s “Love Makes You Crazy” has been on constant repetition at my apartment: Like the greatest music videos, this one launches us directly into a fully-realized world that’s simultaneously novel and derivative, four minutes of elaborate production design that ultimately leads nowhere. And it takes its brilliant conceit both [...]

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Exploring John Cage’s 4’33″

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , on March 24, 2010 | 4 Comments »

On 29 August 1952, in Woodstock, NY, David Tudor gave the first public performance of John Cage’s “silent piece,” Tacet for any instrument or combination of instruments, more commonly known today as 4’33″. The audience’s reaction was something like this:

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