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Reconstruction of John Cage’s 4’33″ using 68 YouTube videos of people performing the piece on a variety of instruments. Part of the ongoing RECON project. Many thanks to Rhizome.org and C-Monster for featuring this work recently.

“There is no such thing as an empty space or an empty time. There is always something to see, something to hear. In fact, try as we may to make a silence, we cannot.” (John Cage, Experimental Music)

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Tags: 4'33", Avant-Garde Film, Avant-Garde Folk Music, Avant-Garde Music, Compilation, Conceptual Art, Conceptual Video, Cut-Up, David Tudor, Experimental Film, Experimental Music, Folk Art, Folk Music, John Cage, Mashup, Minimalist Art, Musique Concrete, New Zealand Film, Post-Structuralist Film, Recon, Reconstruction, Remake, Remix, Silence, Structuralist Film, Video Art, Video Compilation, YouTube Anthropology, YouTube Art

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