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Originally Posted by Machine
Is silence not a huge component of composition?
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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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Originally Posted by Machine
Also I guess if this is actually happening yeah we might as well go back to the thread of redundant arguments.
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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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