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Originally Posted by noumenal
Cage never intended 4'33 to be silence - audience noise, the sound of the performer doing things - that's what the piece sounds like. Coughing and rustling and whatnot.
But once you get the idea, there's no reason to listen to it more than once, or even once. It's conceptual, and boring as art, like T&B said. Cage wrote a lot of good actual music though.
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by silence i meant performance silence not environment silence, silence is only a concept on a planet with an atmosphere, and is something only those who have travelled into space have experienced, the clostest we can get is in an anaechoic chamber