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Downloaders Can Get Nothing for Something From Apple
(Apple will sell you silent tracks)
New York Times ^
| Published: February 9, 2004
| DAVID F. GALLAGHER
Posted on 02/09/2004 10:18:24 AM PST by weegee
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To: weegee
...the track is a version of John Cage's famous silent composition "4'33"," only speeded up... Kids these days want everything too dang fast. If you speed up the Cage piece you lose the delicate interplay between the horns resting and the main theme that the violins aren't playing.
To: plastic_positive
I bought an audio program that can create all sorts of "noise" - white, pink, sine, square, triangle, frequency, amplitude...
(Although, I use it mostly as an audio processor for shortwave.)
I'll make do with my "custom made" silence.
To: steveo
Here's another legendary album that was designed to do the same thing:
This single disc is entirely cussing-filled tirades of Van Morrison in the studio. He hated his label, Bang Records, but owed them one more release, so the session consists ENTIRELY of songs with lyrics like "I hate Bang Records/they're @##holes/they ripped me off/wo wo/ etc. etc."
I wonder if iTunes will be offering it.
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posted on
02/09/2004 4:21:50 PM PST
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weegee
(Election 2004: Re-elect President Bush... Don't feed the trolls.)
To: Leroy S. Mort
Mac heads actually WILL buy anything with the Apple stamp on it, won't they? It's Seinfeld music, a song about nothing.
To: general_re
Nah.....;)
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posted on
02/09/2004 4:41:30 PM PST
by
LisaMalia
(Buckeye Fan since birth!!)
To: weegee
If they download the song "Sounds of Silence" wonder if they get music?
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02/09/2004 4:44:03 PM PST
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LisaMalia
(Buckeye Fan since birth!!)
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