In 4’ 33” John Cage creates a piano | |
concert in three move- |
ments in |
which the piano is not |
played. |
The pianist comes in, sits |
at the piano |
, closes the keyboard |
and uses |
a timer to workout the |
time. He |
repeats this three times |
and then |
he leaves without having |
played a |
single note on the Key- |
board. |
The audience is kept wait- |
ing for |
the piano music. Instead, |
through |
the silence that the non |
playing |
of the piano in the usual |
way, |
another kind of perfor- |
mance |
evolves in which the sounds and | |
movements of the environment that |