@Frown - philosophical question for you. Do you believe that nothing is something in and of itself? I really don't know anything about Cage and I only skimmed through the arguments for and against 433 so maybe the question is bad and not really appropriate to the subject. If you answer yes, I could see that as an argument for justifying 433 as music unless I'm misunderstanding the point Cage was trying to make with it.
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Originally Posted by Neapolitan
There is a concept of 'silence' but in reality there is no such thing as 'silence' in the physical universe just like there are no straight lines or corners in the physical universe.
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Any place where sound waves do not exist is silent. The area inside a vacuum is silent. Proof of straight lines do not exist because of infinity (it is theoretically possible), I can't think of a similar concept/theory that would prevent silence from existing in the physical world.