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Originally Posted by GuitarBizarre
The idea behind 4'33 wasn't what you are thinking.
Cage wanted to try and determine exactly what music was, so he took music, and started taking elements away until he reasoned it was no longer music.
In the end, he concluded that the only thing that was ABSOLUTELY needed across all forms of music was structure, so therefore anything with structure of sound could be considered music, including silence.
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I understand it as an intellectual exercise, but come on, 4'33 is just sitting around silently. I would not agree that this is music.