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What is John Cage saying in his Lecture on Nothing? Why is the text formatting the way it
is on the page? Is this poetry or prose?
Cage throughout his lecture tells his listeners where he is structurally in the lecture.
Cage's lecture is made of large and small mathematical sections in which he makes observations
about the society and music even though he undercuts himself as the talk goes on. Cage's lecture
is poetry. The lecture is made up of observations and Zen-like aphorisms, with increasingly
obsessive repetitions that seem to bring out an artistic world, Cage himself invented. "I have
nothing to say, and that is the point of my saying it" is one of his gnomic statements that make
different scatters of musical statements. The way the space of time is organized, poetry comes
out such that the audience does not have to worry about the silence.
How is Cage’s Lecture on Nothing similar/dissimilar from his Lecture on Something?
Again, why has the author decided to present his ideas this way?
Lecture on something was like a follow up of the lecture in nothing. Cage in the essay
explains the topic ''something'' but ostensibly true, according to another American composer,
Morton Feldman. However, Cage admits that there is still something else, his recent views on the
aesthetic of silence. Cage in the topic presents different graphic scores, such as projections stated

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by Feldman. The two topics advance on the same topic even though the cage lecture on
''something'' is presented in prose form.
Is 45’ for a Speaker a piece of music? Why or why not? Is this a musical score? Does this
differ from the Lecture on Nothing/Something, or is this a new idea?
45'' for a Speaker is a piece of music that presents a real musical challenge. The
presentation returns to a performance genre, or performance or temporal piece in which hearing
and watching it being performed displays its real ontology. However, 45'' for a speaker exists in
a score form because it has another boundary of its original presentation like a musical recording.
In a different view, it still exists in a different subsequent reading that does not tell us exactly
what it is. The analytical standpoint differs 45'' for a speaker from Cage's lectures on ''nothing''
and ''something.'' Cage is mainly concerned with the real discourse that lies between aural
experience and written text. 45'' for a speaker presents this challenge.
Question 2: John Cage's 4'33. Is it a piece of art/music? Or is it not?
Cage's 4'33 can be described probably as a most controversial musical piece, or a joke,
but it is actually a musical piece that is defined by the behavior the audience and the elicit
content of the piece. 4'33 can be viewed in two ways; as a passage of silence or extraneous piece
comprised of intruding noises, which both apply because cage work is comprised of silence. As
he states, ''there is no such thing as silence.'' Cage's intention was to produce performance sounds
of a modern music environment. There were a lot of accidental sounds such as whirling wind,
babies crying, people coughing, raindrops on the roof, traffic outside the auditorium and many
more. The content of performance was made to make the audience listen to whatever sound that
comes out relevant or irrelevant but not silence. In any case, someone doubts that all forms of

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SURNAME 1 Homework Assignment Institution Instructor Course Date What is John Cage saying in his Lecture on Nothing? Why is the text formatting the way it is on the page? Is this poetry or prose? Cage throughout his lecture tells his listeners where he is structurally in the lecture. Cage's lecture is made of large and small mathematical sections in which he makes observations about the society and music even though he undercuts himself as the talk goes on. Cage's lecture is poetry. The lecture is made up of observations and Zen-like aphorisms, with increasingly obsessive repetitions that seem to bring out an artistic world, Cage himself invented. "I have nothing to say, and that is the point of my saying it" is one of his gnomic statements that make different scatters of musical statements. The way the space of time is organized, poetry comes out such that the audience does not have to worry about the silence. How is Cage’s Lecture on Nothing similar/dissimilar from his Lecture on Something? Again, why has the author decided to present his ideas this way? Lecture on something was like a follow up of the lecture in nothing. Cage in the essay explains the topic ''something'' but ...
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