Robert Gable, aka aworks, has put John Cage’s 4’33” on his iPod, so that the ambient sounds of his environment periodically interrupt the mad rush of music on Shuffle. It’s a delightful idea. Apropos of little, in college I helped to organize a radio broadcast of 4’33” — a performance on Baroque instruments, or so we claimed. It lasted only one minute, because tempos were much faster in the Baroque period, har har.