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Originally Posted by The Batlord
But regardless of whether or not there is sheet music to it, it was only composed in the technical sense. Cage could have put any number of rests on that page and it would have meant nothing. He could have literally put nothing and it would have been just as meaningless. No matter how you feel about 4'33, calling it a piece or a composition is like calling a paper airplane an actual plane. Technically correct, but ****ing pointless.
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Lulz. And I guess that there being fifty different ways to dictate an A# invalidates any notation using that note too then?
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And using words like "paradigm" when trying to explain pretentious nonsense is just as stupid as calling 4'33 a piece.
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Like I mentioned earlier, I'm using my brain to form my opinion and that occasionally includes words.
A conversation with someone smarter than you.