In the early 1950s, when Cage was teaching at Black Mountain College in North Carolina, he wrote the composition in three movements lasting 4 minutes 33 seconds, during which time the performer never touches a note.
Realising this, and with encouragement from conductor Simon Rattle, he plays an extended flourish and lastly touches a note that makes a flatulent sound, then stops.
When it cleanly touched a square, the note played through the computer speaker.
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But it ends with a personal touch, a scrawled note from Mrs. Pirro saying, "I am proud to be a Harrison resident".
"Some people have the right to touch you," says a note from an early notebook, in 1998; then, in 2002, "I get annoyed at art that asks me to participate, which is just to say that I don't like being told how to participate," and in 2005, simply, "The bed breathing under your back".
Never, ever touch or write a note in class.
Mr. Burkholder acknowledged that he lost part of a finger when, as an adult, he absent-mindedly touched a sawing machine, and noted that a 50-year-old employee recently lost most of his right arm when he tried cleaning out some wood without turning off the saw.
President Barack Obama has left a touching welcome note to a Syrian refugee about to arrive in the US.
