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Originally Posted by tore
Going into the semantics bit just briefly, if accepting that silence is music or that the "random" sounds from the environment that you can hear when there is no music playing is music - at it's core, that would render the word "music" entirely useless and redundant because it would then be synonymous with sound or even silence. It would have no special meaning of its own anymore.
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I guess the rebuttal might be that when hearing silence in a situation where you are supposed to be listening to music creates a certain atmosphere that wouldn't exist in any other situation. Of course, I still think it's pretentious nonsense. I have to wonder if John Cage himself doesn't scratch his head and wonder why people are still going on and on about that "song" after all these years.