1665" 18' by ∞

Artist: Parcae Threnody

Title: One Thousand Six Hundred and Sixty Five Minutes Eighteen Seconds

In response to a <1 call for works interpreting John Cage's 4'33"

https://fourthirtythree.bandcamp.com/releases

The MVM decided to record 4'33" every day for a year.

That was in January 02020. On February 01, 02020, we began recording 4' 33" at a public keyboard every day. We recorded it at public keyboards across Eugene/Springfield, OR and Corvallis, OR. We performed the piece at colleges, thrift stores, assisted living facilities, parks, libraries, business buildings, art centers, etc.

Then there was a pandemic.

What we imagined initially would be a harsh wall of noise, turned out to be a record of 47 weeks of rainfall and silence overridden by 5 weeks of public performance.

During the 47 weeks we performed this piece during the pandemic, we performed it on keyboards at work and at home, primarily. On a few occasions we used a portable keyboard to perform it in parks and at the beach.

We provide here four different tracks:

Our original vision of 4" 33" layered

A two month layering giving a hint of what could have been

A ten month layering of what actually occurred

And an end to end review of the year.

Catering to the many senses that human beings do not have

Eugene Difficult Music Ensemble
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