CHOSEN RANDOM J CAGE QUOTATIONS from SILENCE 4U

all sound musics of the future is here

to make music is now organizations of sounds

and any other methods which are free from the concept of a fundamental tone

organization of sound for extra musical purposes

in the past the point of disagreement was between dissonance and consonants in the immediate future between noise and the so called musical sounds

for in the new music nothing takes place but sounds mutated or not

there is always something to see and something to hear

any sound may occur in any combination or in any continuity

new music new listening just an attention to the activity of sounds

slavery is abolished

geometrical means employing spatial superimpositions

analogous to the rorschack tests of psychology

a sound has no legs to stand on, the world is teeming anything can happen

the parallel in art is the sculpture with moving parts -the mobile-