That's great!!
Kim
On 07/03/2006, at 8:18 AM, Dominic Tarr wrote:
>
> well, john cage is a musician who people talk about a great deal more
> than listen to
>
>> Somebody once wrote a piece of music which in fact involved not
>> writing a piece of music at all.
>>
>> The score of the piece merely instructs the pianist to sit down, open
>> the lid of the piano and wait out a period of 4' 33" then close the
>> piano lid and walk off.
>>
>> Many people who "heard" it at the premiere felt ripped off. Others
>> agreed with the composer that music had in fact occurred.
>>
>> Something was given for Nothing
>>
>> Does something have to be paid for?
>>
>> Kim Jones
>>
>> On 06/03/2006, at 4:14 PM, Norman Samish wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> "Why is there something rather than nothing?"
>>>
>>> When I heard that Famous Question, I did not assume that
>>> "nothing" was
>>> describable - because, if it was, it would not be "nothing." I
>>> don't think
>>> of "nothing" as an empty bitstring - I think of it as the absence
>>> of a
>>> bitstring - as "no thing."
>>>
>>> Given that definition, is there a conceivable answer to The Famous
>>> Question?
>>>
>>> Norman
>>>
>>>
>>
>> ===========================
>>
>> Everyone lies about everything all of the time. Believe me.
>>
>> kimjones.domain.name.hidden
>>
>>
>>
>>
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