#1885 - Cordelia's song

 

1885

6.58

27.ii.25

Cordelia’s song

concert piece for John Cage’s 4’33”

 

shut out one day

shut them all

 

imagine just inside your head

there’s no such thing as silence

 

face all emotion, as one would expect

a conductor open handed

as if s/he would receive

 

the effort at nothing in mind

 

unword it

the writing’s on the wall

 

imagine a funnel the world falls through

and that’s the proof – imagining!

there is no ever silence

 

there is depth and the beauty

a hush and through the wall

some far bird breaks the day

 

you will think that it is the mind’s mechanics

 

could do this in your sleep

and I do

 

a tune starts up

here where we’ve never met before

one shuffles

 

this love’s already proven

no need to show it off

 

it’s only the world turning we hear

 

it’s just this old hat for a head

 

here’s the answer to a prayer

 

an orchestra’s required 

John Cage's 4′33″ (1952)

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Duration: 4 minutes and 33 seconds.4:33

A performance of 4′33″ (four minutes and thirty-three seconds of silence)

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