The sound-track

A screening of John Cage’s 4’ 33” will be arranged in the Main Theatre as part of the regular screening schedule before the main feature of the day, and will be announced as such. At the scheduled time, the lights will go out and the projector will come on. But no film will be running in the projector. At the end of 4 minutes and 33 seconds, the projector will go off and the next film on the programme will come on. This is, in a way, a cinematic performance of 4’ 33”.

Microphones will be placed all around the Main Theatre to pick up as many sounds as possible. They will be placed in vantage positions to pick up all the sounds that can be predicted to occur – the sound of the projector, sounds from the audience, sounds coming from outside, etc. The sounds will be recorded on different tracks and then mixed together to reproduce as faithfully as possible the complex sound in the theatre at that point in time.

A score sheet from Alphonse Allais' Funeral March, for the last rites of a deaf man, consisting of 24 measures of entirely blank music manuscript. A remarkable precedence to 4' 33"