Hello and happy April Fools Day 2025! 4′33″ is a modernist composition by American experimental composer John Cage. It was composed in 1952 for any instrument or combination of instruments; the score instructs performers not to play their instruments throughout the three movements. It is divided into three movements, lasting 30 seconds, 2:23 seconds, 1:40 seconds, respectively. The idea behind this composition is that the ambient sound that occurs spontaneously between the on stage performers and the audience in the room is "the music".

All kidding aside, it's a very easy thing to laugh at until you actually are in attendance of a "performance" of this piece (or conducting an orchestra playing it like I did) and then you kinda realize once you're immersed in the energy of the experience of a collection of people basically doing a mindfulness music exorcize that there actually is something kind of profound to the experience itself.

Scored for:

5 saxes - Alto sax 1 (dbling soprano), Alto Sax 2, Tenor Sax 1, Tenor Sax 2 (dbling soprano), Baritone Sax

4 Trumpets

3 Tenor Trombone

1 Bass Trombone

1 French Horn

Guitar, Piano, Upright Bass, Drum Set

String Section (Violin 1, Violin 2, Viola, Cello)