I agree, there are times in music when sudden silence brings tears to my eyes, but something has to have caused silence. Besides, listening to the environment around you, that isn't silence. If I'm listening to someone cough or breath or a bird outside chirp, if that's what the music calls for, then yes, it's music. But music, defined as "the art or science of combining vocal or instrumental SOUNDS (or both) to produce beauty of FORM, HARMONY, and EXPRESSION OF EMOTION" is not random. In my opinion at least. His "silence" is, like you said, void. It's nothing, and by that, there is no form.
Sure someone could argue that "nature is harmonious in it's sounds and can express emotion if you just look for it" or whatever. But the fact is, NATURE IS NOT FORM. Not technically. A piece of music is set in stone(for lack of a better word), nature is not. Music is shackled and bound to what it is supposed to be(as morbid as that sounds), nature is free and able to do whatever the fuck it wants. Sure it's pretty, but it's not art.
I completely agree with you. Sir John Cage, you are not only a douche, but a lazy douche. Someone could call what you've created music or art, but truly, it's a really really shitty piece.
I agree, there are times in music when sudden silence brings tears to my eyes, but something has to have caused silence. Besides, listening to the environment around you, that isn't silence. If I'm listening to someone cough or breath or a bird outside chirp, if that's what the music calls for, then yes, it's music. But music, defined as "the art or science of combining vocal or instrumental SOUNDS (or both) to produce beauty of FORM, HARMONY, and EXPRESSION OF EMOTION" is not random. In my opinion at least. His "silence" is, like you said, void. It's nothing, and by that, there is no form.
Sure someone could argue that "nature is harmonious in it's sounds and can express emotion if you just look for it" or whatever. But the fact is, NATURE IS NOT FORM. Not technically. A piece of music is set in stone(for lack of a better word), nature is not. Music is shackled and bound to what it is supposed to be(as morbid as that sounds), nature is free and able to do whatever the fuck it wants. Sure it's pretty, but it's not art.
I completely agree with you. Sir John Cage, you are not only a douche, but a lazy douche. Someone could call what you've created music or art, but truly, it's a really really shitty piece.
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By the way, I was wondering if you had a copy of that song. Perhaps you could make me a cd? ;)
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