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Old 12-13-2014, 08:48 PM   #11 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Frownland View Post
Many of those compositions are written, so they did do something. And since when does compositional skill equate to something being music or a composition? Don't you listen to Manowar?
Wrote what? Rests? Pauses? If there isn't any sound to pause from then you may as well be clapping with one hand.

And I wasn't criticizing anybody's compositional skill, or even a silent "song"'s relevance as art, just the idea that silence can be a composition.
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