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Originally Posted by Frownland
It's because piece is conventional terminology for a classical music composition. Go ahead and ignore the fact that the piece is all about sound and expanding the paradigm of what we consider instruments.
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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.
So stop calling it a piece cause it's ****ing stupid.
And using words like "paradigm" when trying to explain pretentious nonsense is just as stupid as calling 4'33 a piece.
What have I begun?
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