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Originally Posted by fugazifan
and i think the point is missed in 4'33 that he didnt notate silence, but instead he "forced " the audience to become performers and improvisers even if they didnt know that.
im going to listn to his concerto for piano and orchestra
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Well, yeah, his whole point was originally to show that there is never
complete silence. Even in a recording of 4'33, there are little sounds here and there, like somebody coughs, breathing, or as Cage says, even a heartbeat is there, even if you think you can't hear it.
The problem this has caused (and I guess you can't really blame Cage for this) is that a lot of people didn't get that point, and instead thought the point was that music didn't have to be what everybody thought it had to be, and it spawned a bunch of musicians who just tried to pull things out of the left field and created the "you-didn't-see-that-coming" genre.