2002-07-08 - 1:38 p.m.
Thought this was hillarious...!
(From the UK Independent)
Sound of silence
By David Lister Media and Culture Editor
21 June 2002
Mike Batt, the man behind the Wombles and Vanessa Mae, has puta silent 60-second track on the album of his latest classical chart-topping prot�g�s, the Planets. This has enraged representatives of the avant-garde, experimentalist composer John Cage, who died in 1992. The silence on his group's album clearly sounds uncannily like 4'33", the silence composed by Cage in his prime.Batt said last night: "I've received a letter on behalf of John Cage's music publishers. I was in hysterics when I read their letter."As my mother said when I told her, 'which part of the silence are they claiming you nicked?'. They say they are claiming copyright on a piece of mine called 'One Minute's Silence' on the Planets' album, which I credit Batt/Cage just for a laugh. But my silence is original silence, not a quotation from his silence."
