Bob Draper wrote: >This whole question of what is music is utterly inponderable. We can >never agree on a suitable definition. I disagree. Music is an art form, and I'm working on the idea of art as a specialized human activity. It's important to think in terms of a "product" here. Cage's works may consist of noise, but the idea that he had a concept, a set of instructions, and a beginning and end (even if not explicitly specified) gives his work a performance aspect, and thus would have to be considered music. He made noise special by calling our attention to it for its intrinsic qualities rather than as a danger signal, attention-getting device, etc. Whether one responds to it "aesthetically" depends on the person, of course, but that isn't the only defining quality that makes it "art." Chris Bonds