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This is a cover of a John Cage song commonly known as 4'33". I felt that the advent of digital recording technology made it possible to make a recording of this song, and still have the "performance" remain true to the concept. With vinyl or tape, the transduction method - the needle in the groove, the tape sliding over the tape head - introduces noise. Neither of those is going to be a frictionless relationship, so there's always going to be some kind of hiss or crackle coming out of the speakers, not absolute silence. But with digital recording, you can force the recording into true silence, and the transducer (a D/A converter) will not add any extra noise, and send zero current to the speakers, guaranteeing that absolutely no sound will be made by the playback process for the parts of the piece that are supposed to be silent.

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from It's All About (Rimshots and Faulty Wiring), released February 24, 1998
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