Fw: 4.33 (spoofing)

[random99 <random99@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

almost beyond spoofing this one...
given the womble connection maybe they were ripping off crass's "the sound
of free speech"
http://www.wombles.org.uk/
are there any wombles in the usa, btw?

paul

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Subject: 4.33


>
> The Independent, UK
>
> Big noises at odds over the sound of silence
>
> By David Lister Media and Culture Editor
>
> 21 June 2002
>
> 'The Sound of Silence' may have prompted engaging harmonies from Simon and
> Garfunkel ­ but a more literal appreciation of the absence of noise has
prompted
> one of the more curious copyright disputes of modern times.
>
> Mike Batt, the man behind the Wombles and Vanessa Mae, has put a silent
> 60-second track on the album of his latest classical chart-topping
protégés, the
> Planets. This has enraged representatives of the avant-garde,
experimentalist
> composer John Cage, who died in 1992. The silence on his group's album
clearly
> sounds uncannily like 4'33", the silence composed by Cage in his prime.
>
> Batt said last night: "I've received a letter on behalf of John Cage's
music
> publishers. I was in hysterics when I read their letter.
>
> "As my mother said when I told her, 'which part of the silence are they
claiming
> you nicked?'. They say they are claiming copyright on a piece of mine
called 'One
> Minute's Silence' on the Planets' album, which I credit Batt/Cage just for
a laugh.
> But my silence is original silence, not a quotation from his silence."
>
>
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