X-Factor: Muso's in silent protest!

**Eiron[_2_]**

On 18/12/2010 10:46, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
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,
wrote:
Some professional musicians are getting fed up with the amateurs on X-
Factor getting the Christmas No.1, so they've put out a recording of
John Cage's 4'33", this is a piece composed in 1952 which is for any
number of musicians to remain silent for 4 minutes and 33 seconds.

Of course you never get true silence with people in a room. They breathe
and move - even when seated or standing still.

It will probably be normalized to 0dB when played on the radio. :-)

--
Eiron.

**Jim Lesurf[_2_]**

In article , Eiron
wrote:
On 18/12/2010 10:46, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
In article
,
wrote:
Some professional musicians are getting fed up with the amateurs on
X- Factor getting the Christmas No.1, so they've put out a recording
of John Cage's 4'33", this is a piece composed in 1952 which is for
any number of musicians to remain silent for 4 minutes and 33 seconds.

Of course you never get true silence with people in a room. They
breathe and move - even when seated or standing still.

It will probably be normalized to 0dB when played on the radio. :-)

I suspect you are correct. Indeed, if it is released on CD as well as
download...

Slainte,

Jim

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**Mike Coatham** · December 18th 10, 09:46 PM posted to uk.rec.audio

On 19/12/2010 12:27 a.m., Jim Lesurf wrote:
In , Eiron
wrote:
On 18/12/2010 10:46, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
In article
,
wrote:
Some professional musicians are getting fed up with the amateurs on
X- Factor getting the Christmas No.1, so they've put out a recording
of John Cage's 4'33", this is a piece composed in 1952 which is for
any number of musicians to remain silent for 4 minutes and 33 seconds.

Of course you never get true silence with people in a room. They
breathe and move - even when seated or standing still.

It will probably be normalized to 0dB when played on the radio. :-)

I suspect you are correct. Indeed, if it is released on CD as well as
download...

Slainte,

Jim

Jim, now wouldn't it be the ideal piece to let loose on the "vinyl is
better than CD" brigade? It would also be interesting to compare how each
genre is mastered/ pressed

......... Oooh! and what about DBT just to put
the pressure on!

Mike

**Jim Lesurf[_2_]** · December 19th 10, 01:07 PM posted to uk.rec.audio

In article , Mike Coatham
wrote:
On 19/12/2010 12:27 a.m., Jim Lesurf wrote:
In , Eiron
wrote:
On 18/12/2010 10:46, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
In article
,
wrote:
Some professional musicians are getting fed up with the amateurs on
X- Factor getting the Christmas No.1, so they've put out a
recording of John Cage's 4'33", this is a piece composed in 1952
which is for any number of musicians to remain silent for 4 minutes
and 33 seconds.

Of course you never get true silence with people in a room. They
breathe and move - even when seated or standing still.

It will probably be normalized to 0dB when played on the radio. :-)

I suspect you are correct. Indeed, if it is released on CD as well as
download...

Slainte,

Jim

Jim, now wouldn't it be the ideal piece to let loose on the "vinyl is
better than CD" brigade? It would also be interesting to compare how
each genre is mastered/ pressed ......... Oooh! and what about DBT
just to put the pressure on!

If someone can provide me with copies sold on CD, LP, etc, I'll do the
measurements and post the results. They may interest the 'silent
majority'... :-)

Slainte,

Jim

--
Please use the address on the audiomisc page if you wish to email me.
Electronics http://www.st-and.ac.uk/~www_pa/Scot...o/electron.htm
Armstrong Audio http://www.audiomisc.co.uk/Armstrong/armstrong.html
Audio Misc http://www.audiomisc.co.uk/index.html

**Eiron[_2_]** · December 20th 10, 10:45 AM posted to uk.rec.audio

On 18/12/2010 22:46, Mike Coatham wrote:
On 19/12/2010 12:27 a.m., Jim Lesurf wrote:
In , Eiron
wrote:
On 18/12/2010 10:46, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
In article
,
wrote:
Some professional musicians are getting fed up with the amateurs on
X- Factor getting the Christmas No.1, so they've put out a recording
of John Cage's 4'33", this is a piece composed in 1952 which is for
any number of musicians to remain silent for 4 minutes and 33 seconds.

Of course you never get true silence with people in a room. They
breathe and move - even when seated or standing still.

It will probably be normalized to 0dB when played on the radio. :-)

I suspect you are correct. Indeed, if it is released on CD as well as
download...

Slainte,

Jim

Jim, now wouldn't it be the ideal piece to let loose on the "vinyl is
better than CD" brigade? It would also be interesting to compare how
each genre is mastered/ pressed ......... Oooh! and what about DBT
just to put the pressure on!

I hope they didn't use Auto-Tune on it. I hate that effect!

--
Eiron.