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Originally Posted by The Batlord
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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And you were saying that it's not a composition because it supposedly doesn't take any compositional skill. You also seem to think that "rest" means "stop," which isn't the case. A rest is where the instrument is silent. A composition (discounting free form music and real time composition) is a guide for the performer to use in a piece as to what to do. Since a silent piece dictates what the performer should do (which in this case is nothing), doesn't that make it a composition?