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Old Apr 25 2008, 11:56 PM
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Originally Posted by DOFTS View Post
What makes you think I subscribe to that school of thought? If you say "silence is not music" then you imply that rest within music is not part of the music.

So do me a favor and do not think I follow things I do not follow.

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The people would have listen very careful to the sound of nothing and notice, as Cage did, there is sound. There are beautiful sounds. Amazing sounds, sounds we would have not noticed at the very moment if music was being played.
You said yourself that where there should be silence, actually there is sound. No, beautiful sounds. Nay, AMAZING sounds. So during the performance of 4'33" you're hearing these AMAZING sounds of music as opposed to silence. Doesn't it mean that the opposite of silence is ..... music?