3 Minutes And 27 Seconds (An analogy to the Bush strategy perhaps?)

PRIORITY (The Magazine for Singapore Airlines's PPS Club Members) ^ | 2nd Quarter, 2004 | unattributed

[watsonfellow]

Composer John Cage's 1950's piece entitled 3 Minutes and 27 Seconds is the world's quietest piece of music. In this arrangement, a piano player simply sits himself before his instrument for that period of time, and then leaves without playing a single note. Cage's concept? The ambient sounds made by the audience is the music.

[watsonfellow]

I think our beloved President is doing something similar. He is sitting down and letting his critics and the leftist media implode, they create the noise and he will not respond to it. Seems to be working in the polls!

[CWOJackson]

LOL! I believe you are on to something...very astute.

[Diddley]

Cool! (I'm from an earlier generation.)

[farfromhome]

Wow. That's a piece even I could play.

[FesterUSMC]

No, he handed them all ropes, then they tied nooses, then they found a nice tall sturdy tree, next they tied the rope to a branch the put the noose around their neck tightened the knot... moved the knot to the left side a little bit so their neck would break on impact, then they jumped... and now we are seeing their eyes pop out...

[Bandaneira]

John Kerry could go for the Frank Zappa approach of political campaigning...

I remember borrowing an album from the school library when I was about 15 and was just starting to get into rock music. I picked the album because it had such a way out, cartoon-like cover. It was Frank Zappa's "Weasel's Eat my Flesh" or something like that. One of the tracks was seven minutes of the same note, played really loud at a live concert somewhere. When the "song" finished, the crowd went wild. Must have been a lot of recreational pharmaceuticals consumed there.

I have never listened to another Frank Zappa record since.

[Dick Vomer]

Wow. That's a piece even I could play.

You sir have NO TALENT!!!!!!

I could play that piece with one hand tied behind my back!!!! roflmao

[Erasmus]

Actually, it was 4'33".

Although I concede that it would be difficult to tell.

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[LS]

Zappa was a wild one. He was a phenomenal musician who would write intricate pieces, ruthlessly practice his musicians, then put them on stage and secretly switch the order of the songs at every musician's stand, so that when they started, each was playing a different song.

[Bandaneira]

Yes I have heard from zealous music aficionados I know that Frank Zappa was a very talented musician. I'll have to listen to his music again one day when I have some time. I thnk music is a bit like food. Only trying one type leads to a very dull life. As they say..."Variety is the spice of life !"

[LS]

Let me recommend, "Who Are the Brain Police?" or "Don't Eat the Yellow Snow," or "Dental Floss." Zappa's lyrics were both funny and weird.

[dfwgator]

Some incredible musicians worked with Zappa, Jean Luc Ponty is the first one that springs to mind.

[Senator Goldwater]

The old rope-a-dope.

Working to a tee.

[zook]

Nice to see John Cage finally mentioned on FR. I had the opportunity to see Mr. Cage back in 1971. I mean, it's not something you'd want to listen to every day, but he was a pretty cool guy. My buddy went to his hotel room to play chess. He took some nice photos, a couple of which I still have.

[zeugma]

I have never listened to another Frank Zappa record since.

To your great loss. Some of his stuff was noise, and purposely so, but he was a truely inspired guitarist and composer IMO.