You can have thousands of songs on your iPod or iPhone, providing you with hours of listening pleasure, but sometimes you just want to listen to silence. (Download a performance of 4’33” here, or buy Cage Against the Machine, an album featuring a recording of this work and a number of remixes.) Any performance of this work brings out the ambient noises of the concert hall, the coughs and rustles of the audience, and all the other noises we usually never hear. For true silence does not exist on our planet.
The music is in the silence or rather the lack thereof. ITunes and the iPod are all about music, but as composer John Cage once said, “The music is in the silence between the notes.” In fact, Cage is famous for one of his works, 4’33”, where a pianist sits at the piano for 4 minutes and 33 seconds and does nothing.
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Several people in the comments mention music for weddings or fitness routines how do you use these bits of silence? Feel free to post a comment saying how you use these silent files. I can imagine that this is useful for more than the reasons I mention below I would think DJs and performers might benefit from this technique, but if you find it useful, I’d be interested in knowing how.
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I find that several people a day find this through Google searches, as apparently a lot of people want to know how to add silence to playlists. I’m reposting this article, as it is a perennial favorite.
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