Gilbert Schneider, Tobias Wenig, Karolina Pietrzyk: Zang Pat Phwut 4’33

4’33’’ Zang Pat Phwut is a book which is a kind of virtual (over)interpretation of John Cage’s 4’33’’. The authors have created a sort of an atlas illustrating the concept of silence in positive categories—as a state of inalienability of sound. The structure of the publication imitates the structure of Cage’s composition, divided into three parts, with one second of the composition corresponding with one page of a comic-strip frame containing a speech balloon with an onomatopoeic word. The appended index of all the onomatopoeic words, explaining their exact pronunciation, is a humorous reference to didactic publications. This complexity of elaboration may also indicate another way of treating Zang Pat Phwut—as an autonomous, overlapping score of 4’33’’. (Paweł Szroniak)