Wherever we are, what we hear is mostly noise.

A citação é de John Cale e serve de entrada a "STUMM433", uma nova compilação da Mute Records. A novidade está aqui, mas, dada a importância do projecto, justifica-se a colagem da explicação:

We are delighted to announce our latest release in the MUTE 4.0 (1978 > TOMORROW) series: STUMM433, a box set collating an unprecedented selection of Mute artists past, present and future, out in May 2019.

From The Normal, the artist that started Mute, to the label’s newest signing, K Á R Y Y N, STUMM433 will feature a huge array – over 50 – of Mute artists including Depeche Mode, Yann Tiersen, Liars, Silicon Teens, Irmin Schmidt and many more, all presenting their own interpretation of one piece of music: John Cage’s game-changing composition, 4’33”.

4’33” is among the most important of all contemporary music compositions. Composed and premiered in 1952, 4’33” is a piece for any instrument or combination of instruments. The score instructs the performer or performers not to play their instrument for the duration of the piece (generally four minutes and 33 seconds). As challenging and thought-provoking now as it was when it was premiered, 4’33” completely changed popular thinking on silence, sound, composition and listening.

O primeiro destaque de "STUMM433" ficou a cargo dos Laibach e da sua versão readymade dos famosos quatro minutos e trinta e três segundos de John Cale, gravada durante uma instalação/performance da banda com a artista croata Vlasta Delimar, na galeria Bačva, em Zagreb, a 28 de agosto do ano passado.



Agora é só divulgarem a versão dos Depeche Mode que nós já temos título para a posta: "Enjoy The Silence"!