4' 33" and Jupiter

Hello people. I was just looking around the blog today and came to the sudden realization that I did not yet post an experience of 4'33". So among other things, I'll be dropping a few things here today and tomorrow more or less related to class.

I also am in dire need of catching up on the blog ._.

So when I first heard of 4'33" last semester in Environmental Aesthetics, it wasn't too impressed by it. People sitting a room not-listening to people? Where was the value in that? Entertaining? Not particularly. There's nothing to listen to during a performance (seemingly)based solely around it

So I stuffed it in a mental closet and went on with my life. Fast forward to this month for our presentation and I saw a whole different angle to the performance after "performing". I realized that it wasn't just the audience being forced to listen, but the "musicians" as well. It was just us, standing around in the sun, a light breeze, traffic and crickets in the background. All we had to ourselves was our silence and our thoughts. Maybe it was in the delivery of the video Dr.Langguth showed in class, but "watching" it happen seems to fall short of "performing" it. If John Cage really intended for 4'33" to be a unique experience I really think the one who comes out on top of this is the performer instead of the audience.

So then my strange mind had to ask the question: "When 4'33" is played in space, what do you hear?"

Now the obvious answer is "Nothing", but that leaves two points:

1. If you hear "Nothing", isn't that the 'point' of 4'33"?
2. And is it possible to make "something" out of "nothing"? I recalled a post I used in Environmental Aesthetics about the "Sound of Planets" which had their natural radio wave emissions converted via computer into sound our brains can understand, one of which was Jupiter

(And don even get me started on Saturn)

So it would boil down to this one question: "If 4'33" was played in space, would it be loud, a cacophony of sound that overloads the senses, or dead silent with the absence of air?"

Well that's what I have for the moment, just some food for thought.