>To those who assert that music is a purely cultural phenomenon, I
>would point out that this idea has been put to the test, quite
>rigorously, by John Cage, who insisted that any sounds or combination
>of sounds could be construed as music if one merely had the will to
>do so, and spent 40 years of his life composing music on precisely
>that principle. Was this music as successful (moving, exciting,
>attractive) as other musics? Could other music, composed on the same
>principle, be more successful?
>
>No, and no.
Absolutely. I actually did a graduate report on Cage's music and came up with the same conclusion.
Phil Daley
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