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Sound advice from John Cage | Letters

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Joan Friend says she has listened to different versions of 4’33 ’’ and that “they all sound the same” This is impossible, because the whole point of the piece is that during it we hear the sounds all around us.

Composer John Cage said: “Silence does not exist. One simply should listen and open one’s ears”.

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