Summary
COULD this year's Christmas Number One really be four and a half minutes of silence? Could be, if the organisers of the Cage Against The Machine campaign get their way. It's a tantalising prospect. If enough people download John Cage's avant-garde "silent" work, 4'33", in mid-December then, come Christmas, Radio One will have to go silent for four and a half minutes during its chart countdown. At time of writing, Cage Against The Machine has almost 16,000 followers on Facebook; not a bad start.
Cage Against The Machine was, obviously, inspired by last Christmas's successful bid to get an old Rage Against the Machine song to Number One. While the Rage campaign was motivated by exasperation at the way the Christmas Number One slot had become the exclusive preserve of X-Factor winners, the Cage campaign seems more about one upmanship. If it worked for Rage Against the Machine, how far can this go? Could you really get an avant-garde artwork from 1952 to Number One? Let's try.See the full content of this document
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The Prompt
Since Cage died in 1992, what he would make of all this is anyone's...
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