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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“The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well,
on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away
and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”
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