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We don't play our instruments for 4 minutes and 33 seconds

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    Love Adam Neely! I've been aware of 4:33 for a while, but never listened to it because it's really boring. I think the text on the right was a good way to keep the video entertaining while getting...

    Love Adam Neely!

    I've been aware of 4:33 for a while, but never listened to it because it's really boring. I think the text on the right was a good way to keep the video entertaining while getting viewers to listen to the ambient noise.

    Another cool piece that adds to the "music is listening" argument is I Am Sitting in a Room a sound piece that records the playbacks of a reading repeatedly until the only sound is the resonance frequency of the room.

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      Here is a recording of I'm Sitting in a Room, it's quite surprising what the end result is. In the middle it is like whale sounds, the last quarter is quite musical for this sort of thing, kinda...

      Here is a recording of I'm Sitting in a Room, it's quite surprising what the end result is. In the middle it is like whale sounds, the last quarter is quite musical for this sort of thing, kinda like oriental / meditation music. Wish I could tell the intervals and stuff there...