In 1962, Cage wrote 0′00″, which is also referred to as 4′33″ No. It takes them outside of the real world into this manufactured world where they’re the product. We’ve become separated. Philip Glass (born January 31, 1937) is an American composer.He is widely regarded as one of the most influential musicians of the late 20th century. What is amazing is that Glass is one of the minimalists who have made a successful transition into opera (John Adams is the other). And then enslaving everyone for the god of money and power. Cage's handwritten score (produced after the first performance) states that the lid was closed during the movements, and opened to mark the spaces between. One is silent not to be silent. CLICK HERE TO TURN ON NOTIFICATIONS. It’s still doing that now; it has a life of its own. It was composed in 1952, for any instrument or combination of instruments, and the score instructs performers not to play their instruments during the entire duration of the piece throughout the three movements. The directions originally consisted of one sentence: "In a situation provided with maximum amplification, perform a disciplined action." Kostelanetz 2003, 69–71, 86, 105, 198, 218, 231. It’s become a necessity. Get your own music profile at Last.fm, the world’s largest social music platform. These days, he often seems trapped in his formulas; he writes “Philip Glass music” in place of music that happens to be by Philip Glass. "[51] As of September 2017[update], the Facebook page has over 65,000 likes. For Hegarty, noise music, as with 4′33″, is that music made up of incidental sounds that represent perfectly the tension between "desirable" sound (properly played musical notes) and undesirable "noise" that make up all noise music. What’s changed, or not changed, in your concerns?”, Godfrey Reggio: “We’re now exponentially on speed in rush hour, outrunning the future. [44], In May 2019, Mute Records released a compilation box set entitled STUMM433 featuring interpretations of 4′33″ by more than 50 current and alumni Mute artists including Laibach, Depeche Mode, Cabaret Voltaire, Einstürzende Neubauten, Goldfrapp, Moby, Erasure and others. [7], Conceived around 1947–48, while the composer was working on Sonatas and Interludes,[2] 4′33″ became for Cage the epitome of his idea that any sounds may constitute music. Examples include the following: The musicologist Richard Taruskin has argued that 4′33″ is an example of automatism. On the same day, a tongue-in-cheek version was recorded by the staff of the UK Guardian newspaper. Listening to Philip Glass’s music is like stroking a cat: intensely soothing, unless you happen to be allergic. With a breathtaking original score and live music in an intimate setting, the performance is helmed by NYC’s prestigious director JoAnne Akalaitis. He’s the consummate artist of our first lingua franca which is body language, facial expression, eye behavior, gesture and humor, because humor opens the heart. During the second, raindrops began pattering the roof, and during the third the people themselves made all kinds of interesting sounds as they talked or walked out. (philipglass.com) The rest of the album is devoted to percussion pieces by three of TCP’s four members with no liner notes to guide us, just our ears. Glass, Philip (1987). [35], Several performances of 4′33″ including a "techno remix" by New Waver were broadcast on Australian radio station ABC Classic FM, as part of a program exploring "sonic responses" to Cage's work. The transgression of the boundary between high art and low art, classical and pop music, is a theme that seems to have recurred in virtually every generation of composers from Mahler to the minimalists. The Mozart group again completed the maze test significantly more quickly and with fewer errors than the Philip Glass group, suggesting that it might be the musical complexity of Mozart’s compositions that has a positive impact on people’s spatial reasoning. We’re in a data-driven world. His white paintings [...] when I saw those, I said, 'Oh yes, I must. The Woodstock printed program specifies the lengths 30″, 2′23″ and 1′40″, as does the Kremen manuscript, and presumably the original manuscript had the same indications. [29] They could be filled with either sounds, silence or noise; where neither of these elements is absolutely necessary for completeness. “Once something is learned early in life, it’s very hard to discard. Music by Philip Glass. Dickinson, Peter. Performed by The American Composers Orchestra. I wanted to mean it utterly and be able to live with it. Listen to music from mariagiov’s library (70,855 tracks played). We’re fighting fire with fire.”, JM: “Are we to expect that the music for ‘NOW’ will be Philip Glass?”, Godfrey Reggio: “Yes, indeed. Dealing with kids. Such a chamber is also externally sound-proofed. We’re strapped in for the ride, we’re not the driver. In a 2013 TED talk, psychologist Paul Bloom put forward 4′33″ as one example to show that knowing about the origin of something influences our opinion about it as "that silence is different from other forms of silence". And there’s a lot of sounds, and a lot of cacophony of such bullshit. He’s since become a real heterodox in technology. The time-lapse cinematography and fast-paced images of his Qatsi trilogy – “Koyaanisqatsi” (1982), “Powaqqatsi” (1988), and “Naqoyqatsi” (2002) – inspired a generation of filmmaking. Glass's work has been described as minimal music, having similar qualities to other "minimalist" composers such as La Monte Young, Steve Reich, and Terry Riley. [8] It was also a reflection of the influence of Zen Buddhism, which Cage had studied since the late 1940s. They’re captured in the net of a social media heatwave. It’s to open the mind so that the god within can speak to you.”. It is not easy to get a large group of people to listen to ambient noise for nearly five minutes, unless they are regulated by the concert hall etiquette. They had to be switched off for this performance. SYNOPSIS: As part of the Library of Congress’s Gershwin Prize for Popular Song which was awarded to Paul Simon on May 22, 2007, Philip Glass performed his arrangement of Simon’s famous song “The Sound of Silence.” The performance, including the Glass piece, was broadcast nationally on PBS. Compositions that, like 4′33″, include no sounds produced by the performer, were conceived by a number of composers and writers before Cage. "Reviews of Three Books on Satie". [32], There is some discrepancy between the lengths of individual movements of the premiere performance, specified in different versions of the score. I entered this differently from some of my colleagues because they have careers. Philip Glass was unquestionably among the most innovative and influential composers of the 20th century. It’s real, but it’s less true than presence. So, we’ll be as flexible as we have to be. "Until I die there will be sounds. At the first performance Cage had to write that sentence. New York: Harper & Row. The house is on fire, it’s time to move. In a city that delivers blazing-fast internet, looms large on the logistics landscape, and mints start-ups of every type, Phillip D. Glass is easy to overlook. But so that one is sensitive to sound. 1991. [40], In 2004, the work was voted to be number 40 in the ABC radio's Classic 100 piano countdown. JM: “Are we to expect that the music for ‘NOW’ will be Philip Glass?” ... One is silent not to be silent. The second point made by 4′33″ concerns duration. Philip Glass "Sons of the Silent Age" from Symphony "Heroes" 1997 Music composed by Philip Glass. One need not fear about the future of music. This distinction is motivated by the fact that duration is the only element shared by both silence and sound. They promise one thing and do another. Because they come in sheep’s clothing. We live off the manna from the cloud.”, JM: “You describe ‘NOW’ as an, “anarchic comedic fairy tale fantasy of the real.” Tell me about anarchic humor.”, Godfrey Reggio: “The definition I find most clear for anarchic humor comes from a professor in Slovenia named Alenka Zupančič. The screen separates one thing from another, even if it has the appearance of engagement. Cage, John. What Snowden has revealed now is how quick and invasive it is; it’s everywhere. “A lot of the young people that design the gizmos to capture kid’s attention have had a mea culpa moment and left the biz and refused to have their own children anywhere near it. The third point is that the work of music is defined not only by its content but also by the behavior it elicits from the audience. Still from Koyaanisqatsi, dir. In automatism, composers wish to completely remove both the composers and the artist from the process of creation. Philip Glass. Godfrey Reggio: “Facebook, and all the other ones – this is going to sound ridiculous – but, they are the terrorists, really. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan UP, 1961. Lipov, Anatoly. Tenney's recording is archived on line via The Society for the Activation of Social Space through Art and Sound (SASSAS), The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, "John Cage and the Avant-Garde: The Sounds of Silence", "A few notes about silence and John Cage", "Paul Bloom: The origins of pleasure - Talk Video - TED.com", "ABC Classic FM music details for 11 July 2001", "Living Colour – The Chair In The Doorway", "We're pitching the silence of John Cage against the noise of Simon Cowell", "Sound of silence vies to be Christmas number one", "At time of writing, Cage Against The Machine has almost 16,000 followers on Facebook", "Campaigners launch bid to make silent track Christmas No1 ahead of X Factor winner", "JOHN CAGE'S 4'33" FOR CHRISTMAS NUMBER ONE 2010", "Why I'm backing Cage Against the Machine for Christmas No 1", 10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.A2223954. I’m not going to leave Red Hook probably more than two or three times in a year. In the spirit of his teacher Schoenberg, Cage managed to emancipate the silence and the noise to make it an acceptable or perhaps even integral part of his music composition. Reggio told the Sentinel he’s working with an “unfixed script” and describes “NOW” as “an anarchic comedic fairy tale fantasy of the real.”, JM: “You’ve been concerned for a long time about the effect of technology on people. [41], A silence of four minutes and thirty-three seconds appears as the penultimate track of the 2009 Living Colour album The Chair in the Doorway. Director: Zachary Kangas | Star: James Patrick Nelson 5. So, this is the terror. “Just this morning, I had a phone call and it opened with, ‘No matter what time it is, no matter where you are, we are with you to cover every move.’ It was the bank talking about my less-than-money in my account. This process was repeated for the second and third movements. (laugh) It’s like that’s what’s happening. We’re in a state where we realize now that to go back to normal, which all of us desire, is not enough. This is motivated by the belief that what we think of as "self-expression" is really just an infusion of the art with the social standards that we have been subjected to since birth. Your films were critical of technology and then there were commercials for the techno-gizmos themselves, styled on your Qatsi images and music.”, Godfrey Reggio: “There’s a couple of ways to look at that. [38], On January 16, 2004, at the Barbican Centre in London, the BBC Symphony Orchestra gave the UK's first orchestral performance of this work. "[14] Cage had gone to a place where he expected total silence, and yet heard sound. [53] One of several similar campaigns, the Facebook page was called "the only effort this year with a hope of [reaching Number One]" by The Guardian journalist Tom Ewing in September. Tell me how you’re creating this new film ‘NOW’ with children in mind.”, Godfrey Reggio: “What I found out working with children for years, and street gangs, is that their attention span is not long. When I described them to the engineer in charge, he informed me that the high one was my nervous system in operation, the low one my blood in circulation. Furthermore, the audience's behavior is limited by the rules and regulation of the concert hall; they will quietly sit and listen to 4′33” of ambient noise. What they thought was silence, because they didn't know how to listen, was full of accidental sounds. And this is a technological necessity now.”, JM: “What’s the gift of power? She wrote a beautiful book called ‘The Odd One In’ and she says anarchic humor is when there are short circuits that cause an immediate connection between heterogeneous orders. Interview With MoMA Curator David Platzker About the New Exhibition on John Cage. The audience saw him sit at the piano and, to mark the beginning of the piece, close the keyboard lid. By his own admission, Glass remains primarily a collaborative composer. A silent, solo, black-and-white, Kafkaesque nightmare about a man perpetually stuck inside the subway. Godfrey Reggio: “Well, it’s a very complex question you ask. ISBN 0-06-015823-9. But we want to go now! Philip Glass transforms Drowning by acclaimed playwright María Irene Fornés into a New York Premiere pocket opera. They missed the point. ", This page was last edited on 8 December 2020, at 16:20. about. There's no such thing as silence. Glass was honored for … A second performance took place on December 12, 2010. Listen to the full interview with Godfrey Reggio today at noon on “Transformation Highway” with John Malkin on KZSC 88.1 FM / kzsc.org. 4 "Heroes": IV. The ending will approach imperceptibility. It deals with the fundamental structure of how we live a way of life that calls for another way of living.”, JM: “Would you say more about the effect the ubiquitous screen has on young people?”. This is possible when one clears the mind in meditation, gets rid of all the little thoughts or grandioses. Phillip has been the most consistent tent pole for the whole project.”, JM: “When ‘Koyaanisqati’ was released, the style was pretty quickly, and ironically, emulated in the world of television commercials. The causes of this discrepancy are not currently understood, the original manuscript being still lost.[1]. Godfrey Reggio, cinematography by Ron Fricke. And it will be done through the genius of the best storyteller I can find, Bill Irwin. [5][6] The title of the piece refers to the total length in minutes and seconds of a given performance, 4′33″ being the total length of the first public performance. The content of the piece is the electronically amplified sound of the hall and the audience. Obsessed with immortality, Orphée moves between the worlds of the living and the dead, finally becoming immortal when the Princess sacrifices herself for him. "Heroes" Symphony is a symphony (also known as Symphony No. Jones, Robert T. [34], 4′33″ has been recorded on several occasions: Frank Zappa recorded it as part of A Chance Operation: The John Cage Tribute, on the Koch label, 1993; in 2002, James Tenney performed 4′33″ at Rudolf Schindler's historic Kings Road House in celebration of the work's 50th anniversary. Some time later he opened it briefly, to mark the end of the first movement. Since the piece consists of exclusively ambient noise, the audience's behavior, their whispers and movements, are essential elements that fill the above-mentioned time buckets. And who knows when, or if, it’ll get better? By Philip Glass. Philip Glass ventured to the Emory University campus for a performance of his opera Akhnaten and to receive an award from the university. We’ve become the screen. 4′33″ (pronounced "four minutes, thirty-three seconds" or just "four thirty-three")[1] is a three-movement composition[2][3] by American experimental composer John Cage (1912–1992). [10], The first time Cage mentioned the idea of a piece composed entirely of silence was during a 1947 (or 1948) lecture at Vassar College, A Composer's Confessions. Andy Grove is founder of Intel. It first came into prominence after it was mentioned by science writer Ben Goldacre on his Twitter profile. Being careful. Not for any progressive reason, but because it turns kids into addicts. Cage told the audience that he had "several new desires", one of which was, to compose a piece of uninterrupted silence and sell it to Muzak Co. And we’re recognizing that, so we’re in a point of change. [45], In the week leading up to Christmas 2010, a Facebook page was created to encourage people in the UK to buy a new rendition of 4′33″[46] in the hope that it would prevent the winner of the seventh series of The X Factor from topping the UK Singles Chart and achieving the Christmas number one. In 1951, Cage visited the anechoic chamber at Harvard University. He composed One3, the full title of which is One3 = 4′33″ (0′00″) + . The score instructs the performer to build a sound system in the concert hall, so that "the whole hall is on the edge of feedback, without actually feeding back." They’ve become addicted, commoditized, bought and sold. Now during the pandemic, we’ve taken a huge leap forward into even more time on screens.”, Godfrey Reggio: “That’s the ubiquitous screen. ... his future heir, Martin Luther King Jr., gives a silent oration. Alphabetical list of Philip Glass' works on his website; List of compositions by Philip Glass discography at Discogs They’re full of all of the talk, wanting nothing but goodness for everyone. [47] The page was inspired by an earlier campaign in which a Facebook page set up by Jon and Tracey Morter prompted people to buy "Killing in the Name" by American rap metal protest group Rage Against the Machine in the week before Christmas 2009,[48] and has therefore been dubbed "Cage Against the Machine". 4 "Heroes") composed by American composer Philip Glass in 1996 based on the album "Heroes" by David Bowie.Glass had based his earlier Low Symphony on the David Bowie album Low How does that experience continue to affect you?”, Godfrey Reggio: “Silence is so that you may hear. Godfrey Reggio’s films are stunning and prescient. "[12] Painter Alfred Leslie recalls Cage presenting a "one-minute-of-silence talk" in front of a window during the late 1940s, while visiting Studio 35 at New York University.[13]. So, we’re becoming the environment we live in and that environment is predicated on the screen.”, JM: “On the last page of your proposal for your new film “NOW,” there’s an image from the public service campaign you helped produce back in 1974 with the New Mexico Civil Liberties Union. You could hear the wind stirring outside during the first movement. Money becomes almost useless with that kind of power. It goes from rhythm to the measured beat. A staged reading of María Irene Fornés play Mud rounds out the work. Cage's friend and sometimes colleague Robert Rauschenberg had produced, in 1951, a series of white paintings, seemingly "blank" canvases (though painted with white house paint) that in fact change according to varying light conditions in the rooms in which they were hung, the shadows of people in the room and so on. And it did that. Nevertheless, in 4′33″ the audience contributed the bulk of the musical material of the piece. "[15] The realization as he saw it of the impossibility of silence led to the composition of 4′33″. [36][37] The Swedish electronic band Covenant concluded their 2000 album United States of Mind with a rendition of 4′33″ entitled "You Can Make Your Own Music". In the Second Tacet Edition he adds that after the premiere a copy has been made for Irwin Kremen, in which the lengths of the movements were 30″, 2′23″ and 1′40″. This paragraph summarizes some of the findings from Solomon 1998/2002. Silence: Lectures and Writings. (ed.). And it’s what we’re all wanting. 4′33″ challenges, or rather exploits to a radical extent, the social regiments of the modern concert life etiquette, experimenting on unsuspecting concert-goers to prove an important point. First, the choice of a prestigious venue and the social status of the composer and the performers automatically heightens audience's expectations for the piece. According to Cage, duration is the essential building block of all of music. (Ivan) Illich says our freest moment is the right to say no to necessity. As a result, the listener is more focused, giving Cage's 4′33″ the same amount of attention (or perhaps even more) as if it were Beethoven's Ninth. Another one would be, ‘a dawn of darkness.’ Putting things that don’t normally relate in an equivalency.”, JM: “Your early film ‘Evidence’ was an observation of children transfixed, watching a screen. The inlay can be folded out. Cage entered the chamber expecting to hear silence, but he wrote later, "I heard two sounds, one high and one low. It’s like we rolled the Darwin dice and it comes up three; primate, human and cyborg. Cage achieves that by employing chance (e.g., use of the I Ching, or tossing coins) to make compositional decisions. 2015. It went from the rhythm of its creation, an artful gift – not a necessity, a gift – and was put into the structure of the beast; the viewing machine, the screen. Power more than money. In 4′33″, neither artist nor composer has any impact on the piece, so that Cage has no way of controlling what ambient sounds will be heard by the audience. So, you’ll have to slush it around. [11], At the time, however, Cage felt that such a piece would be "incomprehensible in the Western context," and was reluctant to write it down: "I didn't wish it to appear, even to me, as something easy to do or as a joke. Metamorphosis, a solo piano work in five sections, takes its name from Kafka's famous short story. The Duet for Two Flutes (1934), composed when Cage was 22, opens with silence, and silence was an important structural element in some of the Sonatas and Interludes (1946–48), Music of Changes (1951) and Two Pastorales (1951). As a result, the underlying structure of any musical piece consists of an organized sequence of "time buckets". "4'33" as the Play of Silent Presence. Philip Glass From The Music Of David Bowie & Brian Eno: Philip Glass From The Music Of David Bowie & Brian Eno - "Heroes" Symphony ‎ (CD, Album, RE, RP) Point Music: 454-388-2: UK & … Reggio has just begun production on a new film called “NOW” which continues the cinematic explorations of this 80-year-old filmmaker. From the music of David Bowie and Brian Eno. Philip’s pumped up for this. External links. [56] This version of Cage's work failed to make number 1, but charted at number 21 on the UK Singles Chart.[57]. [42], On December 5, 2010, an international simultaneous performance of Cage's 4′33″ took place involving over 200 performers, amateur and professional musicians, and artists. The performance was broadcast live on BBC Radio 3, and one of the main challenges was that the station's emergency backup systems are designed to switch on and play music whenever apparent silence (dead air) lasting longer than a preset duration is detected. And catch the scary silent-movie-house organ! Instead of distributing this through Netflix, or whatever, we’re going to go directly free for all into the Net, in the ubiquitous medium of the gizmo. ... Pearl Jam – had better results than the silent group. [28] Thus, even before the performance, the reception of the work is already predetermined by the social setup of the concert. [52], The campaign received support from several celebrities. Though married to Eurydice, Orphée falls in love with an enigmatic Princess. Print. "[11], In late 1989, three years before his death, Cage revisited the idea of 4′33″ one last time. Furthermore, in his songs The Wonderful Widow of Eighteen Springs (1942) and A Flower (1950) Cage directs the pianist to play a closed instrument, which may be understood as a metaphor of silence. What do people gain by controlling masses of people?”. The original Woodstock manuscript (August 1952): conventional notation, dedicated to, The Kremen manuscript (1953): graphic, space-time notation, dedicated to. What John Cage's silent symphony really means, Interview with Kyle Gann about 4'33" on The Next Track podcast, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=4′33″&oldid=993061761, All Wikipedia articles written in American English, Wikipedia articles needing page number citations from August 2010, Articles containing potentially dated statements from September 2017, All articles containing potentially dated statements, Wikipedia articles incorporating the Cite Grove template, Wikipedia articles incorporating the Cite Grove template without a link parameter, Wikipedia articles incorporating the Cite Grove template with a doi parameter, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. As in all number pieces, "One" refers to the number of performers required. Philip Glass’ influence can be felt throughout the album. It will open with a single idea which I will attempt to make as seductive as the color and shape and fragrance of a flower. We’ll be looking at things like a calliope, toy piano, kazoo, bells and orchestra. The Vivid Unknown: Godfrey Reggio begins…, Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window), Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window), PG&E ‘not speculating’ about cause of fires, Cal Fire issues evacuation warnings for parts of Santa Cruz County, The Vivid Unknown: Godfrey Reggio begins production on new film ‘NOW’, Santa Cruz’s Clam Chowder Cook-Off still in the plans for 2021, Pet of the Week | Pops is a mix of energy and relazation, Coast Line | Kiwanis Club to hold March 6 crab fundraiser, Horoscopes Jan. 24, 2021: Mischa Barton, use your imagination. On backcover: Stillness, or Anarchy of Silence? Titled “Ten Years and Counting,” it referred to the real-life approach of Orwell’s dystopian 1984. The global orchestra, conducted live by Bob Dickinson, former member of post-punk group Magazine, via video link, performed the piece in support of the Cage Against The Machine campaign to bring 4′33″ to Christmas number 1 in 2010. There's a short introduction by Philip Glass from 1992 plus the translations in French and German from 1996. We’re becoming that environment of technology becoming sensate. Otherwise I'm lagging, otherwise music is lagging'. While the renaissance of interest in the countertenor voice has made it much more familiar than it was when Glass initially wrote this music in the early 1980s, Akhnaten’s singing retains a startling effect—at least initially—since he is a silent visual presence onstage until well into the first act. Screen, by definition, is a separation point. So, one has to pierce through all of that and that’s why we’re silencing. And the screen’s ubiquity is what everyone wants; it’s the god tool of wonderland. If we didn’t have Zuckerberg, we’d have Dumaflagey. Blimps that are like antennae that can take satellite feed and spread it out to people who don’t have access to the internet.”, JM: “How would you describe the influence of social media and tech corporations on us?”. It was composed in 1952, for any instrument or combination of instruments, and the score instructs performers not to play their instruments during the entire duration of the piece throughout the three movements. Sons of the Silent Age. 4′33″ (pronounced "four minutes, thirty-three seconds" or just "four thirty-three") is a three-movement composition by American experimental composer John Cage (1912–1992). And they will continue following my death. GET BREAKING NEWS IN YOUR BROWSER. But it’s also been appropriated, like anything that has a life of its own. I never had a career. Or that’s the virtue of silence; so that we may be open to hear. I hear they have big blimps now over Africa, to be able to get everybody gizmos, or as many people as possible. [26], In defining noise music and its value, Paul Hegarty in Noise/Music: A History (2007) contends that Cage's 4′33″ represents the beginning of noise music proper. [39] BBC Four broadcast the recording one hour later. My colleagues at the studio in Red Hook, New York have a regime now; as soon as I get in town with my wife, we get tested. The piece consists of the sounds of the environment that the listeners hear while it is performed,[4] although it is commonly perceived as "four minutes thirty-three seconds of silence". You were concerned about surveillance, data collection and behavior control of the masses. [54] XFM DJ Eddy Temple-Morris also voiced his support on his blog,[55] as did Luke Bainbridge. The Concerto for prepared piano and orchestra (1951) closes with an extended silence, and Waiting (1952), a piano piece composed just a few months before 4′33″, consists of long silences framing a single, short ostinato pattern. Another cited influence[12] for this piece came from the field of the visual arts. In Cage's 4′33″, the audience felt cheated by having to listen to no composed sounds from the performer. In a 1982 interview, and on numerous other occasions, Cage stated that 4′33″ was, in his opinion, his most important work. But I’ll give you an example; ‘The vivid unknown.’ It’s putting opposites together. I entered this for a strategic reason; I wanted to do ‘Koyaanisqatsi’ in a way that it could enter the vascular structure of the beast. Philip Glass, one of our reigning minimalists, studied under Darius Milhaud and Nadia Boulanger in Paris and his music has always had a quiet Debussy-like character to it. 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