Anyone ever download the mp3? I cant hear anything.

To those who dont know.

John Cage's most famous musical composition is called 4'33".

It consists of the pianist going to the piano, and not hitting any keys for four minutes and thirty-three seconds. (He uses a stopwatch to time this.) In other words, the entire piece consists of silences -- silences of different lengths, they say.

On the one hand, as a musical piece, 4'33" leaves almost no room for the pianist's interpretation: as long as he watches the stopwatch, he can't play it too fast or too slow; he can't hit the wrong keys; he can't play it too loud, or too melodramatically, or too subduedly.

On the other hand, what you hear when you listen to 4'33" is more a matter of chance than with any other piece of music -- nothing of what you hear is anything the composer wrote.
http://interglacial.com/~sburke/stuff/cage_433.html

Learnt about it in piano class. I heard the guy locked himself in a room that absorbs sound, and you cant hear anything but your heart beating and the life going on inside your body.

You learn somthing new everyday. So whenever someone asks you if you know how to play anything on the Piano and you dont know, just say 4'33 by John Cage.