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Date: | Fri, 10 Sep 1999 10:22:00 -0400 |
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Bill Boletta writes of Cage sayong:
>It went something like this: "Music is everywhere. Musicians, composers,
>and audiences limit it to the concert hall settings, but if you really
>want to hear some music, try this. The next time you are in line at the
>supermarket, just listen. The voices you hear, the cash register ringing,
>the clatter of the shopping baskets: this is music."
To me this is noise. This is not a value judgment, it is a protest at
the devaluation of a word by using it to mean something there is already
a perfectly fine word for -- the word for the all encompassing definition
of music that Cage is implying is "sound". Even "found art" was at least
delineated by a frame or a plinth; to say that everything around is art may
be terribly Zen, but it's also uselessly indiscriminate.
len.
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