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Burning Down · 06-09-2012, 09:16 PM

I think of music as organized sound. Most of the time it requires someone to organize those sounds - a musician. Music fills a void of near-silence (because there really is no such thing as total silence in the natural world). But on that note (please pardon the lame pun), music doesn't have to be anything, which is the case with John Cage's 4'33". That piece was meant to be a more philosophical approach to music and sound as a whole - meant to make you more aware of the sounds happening around you rather than the music coming from the performer.

06-09-2012, 09:16 PM	#3 (permalink)
Burning Down The Music Guru. Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Beyond the Wall Posts: 4,858	I think of music as organized sound. Most of the time it requires someone to organize those sounds - a musician. Music fills a void of near-silence (because there really is no such thing as total silence in the natural world). But on that note (please pardon the lame pun), music doesn't have to be anything, which is the case with John Cage's 4'33". That piece was meant to be a more philosophical approach to music and sound as a whole - meant to make you more aware of the sounds happening around you rather than the music coming from the performer.