A quote some need to hear...

[Kurt R]

"The most perfect technique is that which is not noticed at all." - Pablo Casals

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Well I like it anyways.

<font color="#a62a2a" size="1">[ August 26, 2005 09:50 PM: Message edited by: Kurt R ]</font>

[Greaseleg]

I like that one too...but is it said with the true, pure language of jazz? That's all that matters...

[Henry II]

OK children, it's time to "DUCK AND COVER."

[got_a_matchgrip]

Originally posted by Greaseleg:
I like that one too...but is it said with the true, pure language of jazz? That's all that matters...

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">LMBehindO

"Oh no you DIT-int, GL..." [*2 snaps & a circle*] [img]wink.gif[/img]

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"The most perfect technique is that which is not noticed at all." - Pablo Casals

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">OK, that's it.
Next time i will just simply sit at my kit, with my hands resting comfortably on my thighs & facing straight ahead w my eyes closed [in silence]. [;oP
And maybe I'll just hum a few bars.
After all [wryly], it's all only just liberal "performance art" anyway, isn't it?! [img]tongue.gif[/img]
[Vin, Virg, Novak, & Weck just left the building......along with Elvis & his many gazillion of spin-off minions...]

I wax sarcastic.
[In an albeit evocative-of-humorous sort of way, mind you].

<font color="#a62a2a" size="1">[ August 27, 2005 03:03 PM: Message edited by: got_a_match_grip? ]</font>

[Clintuplet]

Fuse wrote:

OK, that's it.
Next time i will just simply sit at my kit, with my hands resting comfortably on my thighs & facing straight ahead w my eyes closed [in silence]. [;oP

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Sounds like (or doesn't sound like) a John Cage performance. [img]wink.gif[/img] [img]tongue.gif[/img]

"If sometimes you can't hear me, it's because sometimes I'm in parenthesis."- Steven Wright

<font color="#a62a2a" size="1">[ August 28, 2005 01:31 AM: Message edited by: Clintuplet ]</font>

[got_a_matchgrip]

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[LDGuy]

Didn't someone famously arrange 4:33 for orchestra?

[matricks]

Yeah, that amount of silence is actually copyrighted.

[Clintuplet]

Yeah, that amount of silence is actually copyrighted.

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Apparently someone in the Cage camp thought all compositions of silence regardless of length are subject to copyright.

This is from a Canadian website:

-Music copyright infringement can be a fairly tricky thing. Some cases, like the fiasco over the similarity between Huey Lewis' "I Want A New Drug" and the Ghostbusters theme, are reasonable. Others are a little more iffy. For instance, can anyone own a copyright on the sound of silence?

According to the estate of late avant-garde composer John Cage, yes. Cage, as you may remember, perplexed an audience decades ago with a "composition" called "4'33," which featured him sitting in front of a piano, in complete silence, for exactly four minutes and 33 seconds. Now, a classical composer by the name of Mike Batt has put a track called "One Minute's Silence" (which is exactly that) on an album by his protegees, The Planets. According to the British newspaper, The Independent, John Cage's people have served him with a legal document, claiming copyright infringement.

And what does Batt have to say about it? "My Silence is original silence, not a quotation from his silence." Fair enough.