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Old 12-13-2014, 09:52 PM   #354 (permalink)
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Which is relevant, how? If there is no sound, it wouldn't matter if it was John Cage up on stage, or me. Seriously, for this to not just be an exercise in being pretentious, then it shouldn't matter one bit who's on stage.


So, all that something has to be to be a composition, is a collection of symbols on a page? Cause that's all they are if they're not actually causing anything to happen.
But if they were put together maybe in the way the conductor would conduct or what not. Applebaum has a piece for three composers and no players and based on their reactions is what the music is.
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