A Call For Humor!

[Audionaut]

 

[Audionaut]

 

[Multicore]

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That ReVox A77 seems like overkill for a recording of 4'33", you know?
Something like this would have been adequate, I would've thought.

Indeed. Therein lies the essence of 4'33". It brings out what you would have thought, unencumbered, like nothing else.

 

[Audionaut]

 

[ryanosaur]

"4:33" is a pianist sitting at the keyboard, not playing for four minutes and thirty-three seconds. Whatever sounds are in the venue are considered part of the piece.

That's so... meta.

 

[mhardy6647]

That's so... meta.

That's exactly what 4'33" is... and Cage didn't even know Zucky.
At least, not in our chunk of space-time...

 

[ryanosaur]

It was fun discussing that in one of our Musicology classes and whether it was a true composition or not. It's always been humorous to me, and somewhat poignant, to consider what a recital hall or concert hall actually sounds like when it's full of people who are supposed to be there and being quiet for a performance.

Shall we now discuss Lockwood's Piano Burning (1968)?

Piano burning should really be done with an upright piano; the structure is much more beautiful than that of a grand when you watch it burn. The piano must always be one that's irretrievable, that nobody could work on, that no tuner or rebuilder could possibly bring back. It's got to be a truly defunct piano.

 

[xanalog]

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But wouldn't that also/easily apply to an inductor (errrr >> a coil)... possibly with dire consequences?
I find 'ELI the ICE man' less error-prone.

 

[Robin L]

It was fun discussing that in one of our Musicology classes and whether it was a true composition or not. It's always been humorous to me, and somewhat poignant, to consider what a recital hall or concert hall actually sounds like when it's full of people who are supposed to be there and being quiet for a performance.

Shall we now discuss Lockwood's Piano Burning (1968)?

"Fluxus" was a group of New York avant-garde artists, both John Cage and Yoko Ono were part of it.

One work that Yoko Ono was involved with involved pushing a piano off a rooftop.

Now, "here's the rest of the story"

 

[ryanosaur]

At least I can still take George Crumb seriously.

 

[Berwhale]

The fancier restrooms put ice in their urinals.

Martin

I found myself in a nightclub in Berlin in 2005. The place was in a warehouse by the river, the restrooms were shipping containers in the middle of the warehouse and the urinals were huge piles of backlit ice. I wish I could remember what the club was called

*edit* further research indicates that it was actually in November 2009 (I was attending Microsoft TechEd Europe) and it was probably the Watergate Club although the pictures don't quite match my recollection (hazy recollection sponsored by HP who were trying to sell me more servers at the time )

 

[xanalog]

19 out of 20 children find bullying funny.

Remainder 5% probably deserved it... or they were of the type who were willing to take the consequences of getting attention the only way they could figure out how.
'Fred' was like that in our high school years.

 

[xanalog]

the urinals where huge piles of backlit ice. I wish I could remember what the club was called

Mid-to-late 70s, NYC bars used to put those urinal traps that you could spin like a fan, if your aim was good.
My memory must be better than google's because it could not produce an image of one but all of these came up while I was searching:

 

[mhardy6647]

It was fun discussing that in one of our Musicology classes and whether it was a true composition or not. It's always been humorous to me, and somewhat poignant, to consider what a recital hall or concert hall actually sounds like when it's full of people who are supposed to be there and being quiet for a performance.

Shall we now discuss Lockwood's Piano Burning (1968)?

Clearly a piece that would benefit from audio-video rather than audio-only reproduction.

 

[Multicore]

"4:33" is a pianist sitting at the keyboard, not playing for four minutes and thirty-three seconds.

It's an adaptable piece. Here's the Berliner Phil with chief conductor Kirill Petrenko.

"Fluxus" was a group of New York avant-garde artists, both John Cage and Yoko Ono were part of it.

Briefly also Ligeti. This old film is really nice.

 

[Gary_G]

I was sacred to post this in the "Springs Under My Speakers: What's Happening?" thread.

 

[Gary_G]

Up here in northern New England -- where 'cell phone coverage' and 'GPS' are the stuff of legendary tales told by raving, wild-eyed strangers "from away" -- in the springtime, when the snow melts and after mud season subsides, we routinely find the remnants of Audis and Bimmers contianing the bleached skeletons of unfortunate flatlanders who dared to follow the directions of their "devices" to find their way to a destination.



The grisly scene above records the final struggles and resting place of an AWD VW one March night just a few yards from our driveway.
They almost made it to their destination (the next house up the hill from ours).

Almost.

Omfg I wasthere, Calis, VT north of Montpelier right?!

 

[mhardy6647]

Omfg I wasthere, Calis, VT north of Montpelier right?!

Other side of the Connecticut.

Poor Vermont just had its third annual flash flooding yesterday (July 10). Much more localized this year than the last two, but still added insult to injury for the Green Mountain State.

https://www.vermontpublic.org/local-news/2025-07-10/state-dispatches-rescue-teams-as-flash-floods-hit-vermont-again?mc_cid=4f71c239ed

 

[norman bates]

I was at a local speedway and the men’s room consisted of a claw bathtub in the middle of a room with ice, perhaps running water. Now imagine 9 dudes standing around it going #1…..

Nothing like gazing into another man’s eyes while peeing…….

 

[KellenVancouver]