Cage's avant-garde oeuvre includes works such as the notorious "4'33", a piece comprising four minutes and 33 seconds of total silence, all meticulously notated.
But it was all "meticulously notated" somewhat like a
Dan Rather news report on G.W.Bush.
Liberals will buy anything.
We set our CD player to 'repeat' and play the 4'33" continuously. We've had it running on one player for 5 or 6 years. The player is actually broken and it's not even plugged in, so it's pretty cheap to keep the tune playing continuously. When we have company over, it makes nice background.
Also, another project of mine has been to play the dial tone over our national phone system for the past many years, to continue until the last standard phone network is gone.