John Cage still made me upset when we watched his performance of “4’33”. I genuinely was anticipating something that never was going to happen and I was so confused. It was interesting and started to make sense when in the reading it stated “It has been called the “silent piece,” but its purpose is to make people listen. “There’s no such thing as silence,” Cage said, recalling the première. “You could hear the wind stirring outside during the first movement. During the second, raindrops began pattering the roof, and during the third people themselves made all kinds of interesting sounds as they talked or walked out.”. When you put it in that perspective, yes there is no such thing as silence. There is always something to someone. Instead of a visual interpretation, it's an auditory experience with different experiences that make it a unique experience for many. To this day, there are recreations of John Cage’s infamous piece he created. Yes, it’s all familiar with the same theme but all of them are different in their own unique way. There is no such thing as a “same” or “identical” version of the same “4’33”. Everyone has their own interpretation of it and that’s what makes me find it inspirational to the degree it is. To put that thought into perspective “That last thought ruled Cage’s life: he wanted to discard inherited structures, open doors to the exterior world, “let sounds be just sounds.” Gann writes, “It begged for a new approach to listening, perhaps even a new understanding of music itself, a blurring of the conventional boundaries between art and life.”
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