Originally Posted by DrumUltimA

I don't think a performance of 4'33" is much different than a picture of a landscape, or of a nature scene, or perhaps of a busy city street, etc. The photographer didn't make those scenes, he simply captured them. It is the interpretation of this capture that makes it art, and I believe that's what John Cage was intending to do with 4'33". He was capturing the naturally occurring sounds that lived during those four minutes and thirty three seconds, as if that was the frame of his picture--leaving it up to the audience to decide what to make of those sounds, or what to make of the piece, or to fall asleep, etc.

Is it music? If you want it to be.