The composition 4'33" is written in three movements during which not a single note is played. Its musical content is rather all the sounds that appear during the performance of the piece.
Mexico City is one of the most noisy cities in the world. Its almost 20 million inhabitants cause a continuous sound-scape of car- and bus-traffic, street-venders, promotion-music from shops, street-musicians, and so on.
The idea behind 4'33" for Mariachi is as well to challenge the composition with this noisy urban environment, as to challenge this noisy city with this composition of "silence". The three movements were taken literally. Three different places in the public space of Mexico city were chosen to perform the piece there. Each of these three places has a different connotation of movement: Zocalo (pedestrian area), Metro station Bellas Artes and the traffic intersection Paseo de la Reforma / Hidalgo. At each of these places, one movement from the composition was played by a Mariachi band of seven musicians.
4'33'' for Mariachi is a 2-channel video (each Full HD).