From: "Raymond" <ray@wavewalker.freeserve.co.uk>
Reply-To: tv@obbard.com
To: <tv@obbard.com>
Subject: Re: (TV) Re:
Date: Sun, 18 Aug 2002 18:58:49 +0100
this story is patently ridiculous but all the more absurd when you know
that
Mike
Batt is the one and only Mike Batt of brit avant-garde 70's group the
Wombles
spooky innit?
----- Original Message -----
From: Maurice Rickard
> At 7:33 AM -0700 8/16/02, Jay wrote:
> >Said Mike Batt of the Planets: "Mine is a
> >much better silent
> >piece. I (am) able to say in one minute what (took
> >Cage) four minutes and
> >33 seconds." [The Independent (London), 6-21-02]
>
> Except that 4'33" is "about" the sounds that are taking place in the
> hall at the time of performance. And it has three movements--I'm not
> joking. When one thinks of it that way, the Planets' version seems
> quite rushed.
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