Robert Peters responded to me:

>>Cage's 4' 33", for example.  One can't say that this work is ugly, but
>>nobody will deny that, as music, it definitvely doesn't works.  Whether
>>Cage did care or not about this, is quite a different problem.
>
>You cannot talk about this piece without regarding Cage's theory and
>concept.  He stretches the limits of what we understand when we say
>"music".

My statement is perfectly consequent to Cage's theory (if there's such
a thing as a a "Cage's theory").  Read it again carefully, with all your
inner calm.

Pablo Massa
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