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Old 07-06-2015, 02:24 PM   #11 (permalink)
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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?
Even if that was true (which it isn't as there is completely a point for the composition, but I digress) how would that discredit it as music. You just agreed with me that silence is part of musical composition.
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