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Originally Posted by Chula Vista
Listen, if there was a single note played at 0'01 of the piece and then another at 4'43 of the piece it becomes music. A lame ass artsy fartsy interpretation of music but still music.
But dead silence is dead silence whether there's musicians on stage in front of an audience or not.
But this thread proves that Cage was a genius in his own weird sort of way.
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Well the silence isn't the focus of the piece, it's what's within the silence that we wouldn't normally give the time of day. And Cage has got a lot more where that came from:
Though most of his other works aren't the topic of discussion when it comes to defining music.