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Eddy Temple-Morris joins Cage Against The Machine campaign
By CMU Editorial | Published on Tuesday 26 October 2010
Xfm presenter and CMU columnist Eddy Temple Morris has announced that he, along with Ou Est Le Swimming Pool’s Joe Hutchinson, has joined the previously reported Cage Against The Machine project, which aims to get avant-garde composer John Cage’s ‘4’33”’ to Christmas number one.
Proceeds from the sale will go to five charities, including the British Tinnitus Association, of which Temple-Morris is a patron, and CALM, an organisation which seeks to reduce suicide amongst young men, and which Hutchinson became involved with after the tragic death of Ou Est Le Swimming Pool frontman Charles Haddon earlier this year.
Cage’s piece, of course, is four minutes and thirty three seconds of silence, the idea being that, in reality, there is no such thing as silence and that the audience should be driven to appreciate the ambient sounds around them. Eddy writes in his CMU column this week: “I just kept thinking that ‘4’33″‘ for people with tinnitus, and young people with depression, would be a horrid place, and they couldn’t appreciate this piece for its raison d’etre, so we decided to join forces and make this happen”.
For the release, Eddy and co are assembling a team of musicians to record a new version of ‘4’33”’. He explains: “We decided … to put together a band of serious leftfield, avante garde, upcoming and established musicians from many genres, including classical music, and to, in much the same way as Band Aid, get them to a given place at a given time, have a conductor count off and a producer record the atmosphere in that room”.
Join the campaign at www.catm.co.uk or on Facebook at www.facebook.com/cageagainstthemachine. You can read Eddy’s column about Cage Against The Machine in full later this afternoon at www.completemusicupdate.com/eddysays.
