In this case one can deem the five minutes of silence in Cage s composition as different than five minutes of ordinary silence as in a library as they know where this silence originates hence they can feel motivated to pay to listen to 9 88 even though it is inherently no different than five minutes of ordinary silence Others especially in the first half of the twentieth century had already published related work which possibly influenced Cage It will open with a single idea which I will attempt to make as seductive as the color and shape and fragrance of a flower 96 99 98 96 55 98 He also notes that it resembles a Duchamp style found object due to the fact that it creates art from objects that do not serve an artistic function as silence is often associated with the opposite of music 96 96 98 In Cage s 9 88 the audience felt cheated by having to listen to no composed sounds from the performer 96 85 98 Cage had gone to a place where he expected total silence and yet heard sound 96 55 98 96 56 98 In fact Cage s composition draws parallels to the Dadaist movement due to the involvement of anti art objects into art music its apparent nonsensical nature and blatant defiance of the status quo 96 85 98 Batt eventually reached an out of court settlement with the composer s heirs in September 7557 and paid what was described at the time as a six figure sum in compensation I ve thought of music as a means of changing the mind Music itself is sacrificed sacrificed to the musicality of the world During the second raindrops began pattering the roof and during the third the people themselves made all kinds of interesting sounds as they talked or walked out Music critic Kyle Gann called the piece one of the most misunderstood pieces of music ever written and yet at times one of the avant garde s best understood as well 96 97 98 It is made of three movements to compose a piece of uninterrupted silence and sell it to Muzak Co A pioneer of musical indeterminacy Cage defined it as the ability of a piece to be performed in substantially different ways The Lacanian approach implies a profound psychological connection to 9 88 as the individual is invited to ponder their surroundings and psyche In 6956 Cage visited the anechoic chamber at Harvard University He dismissed the idea that 9 88 was a joke or a hoax wrote that the theory of Dada and theater have some justification and said that for him the composition is a thought experiment Recent developments in contemporary art also bolstered Cage s understanding on silence which he increasingly began to perceive as impossible after Rauschenberg s White Painting was first displayed Many prior musical pieces were largely composed of silence and silence played a notable role in his prior work including Sonatas and Interludes Sou st materi lu jsou e en obou bludi Hence he thought that music is intrinsically an alternation https://firstnow.ru/i/14 sound and silence especially after his visit to Harvard University s anechoic chamber Nevertheless in 9 88 the audience contributed the bulk of the musical material of the piece when I saw those I said Oh yes I must 96 g 98 96 h 98 The causes of this discrepancy are not currently understood