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Old 07-06-2015, 02:22 PM   #57 (permalink)
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Is silence not a huge component of composition?
And? The composition may as well not exist. If the players were staring at actual blank pieces of paper, the result would be the same, making the composition of 4'33 a completely pointless exercise, except as an intellectual statement.

How is that music as opposed to simply art about music?

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Also I guess if this is actually happening yeah we might as well go back to the thread of redundant arguments.
Your arguments were just as circular, just more pretentious: "It's music because it's called music", and "It's music because it was composed".
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