I recorded 30 seconds of silence and have come to the conclusion that attaining true silence in the 21st century

is merely impossible. I sat on the floor of my room, recorded the track, put on my headphones, and pressed play. To no surprise, all I picked up was the distant reverberations of the neighbors televisions and the racing cars on the roads. I began thinking about how music s definition began to shift from organi!ed harmonies to organi!ed sounds and how it reflected the human s need to breach the previous generation s imposed parameters. "#perimental music, in the way I perceive it that is, simply asks the $uestion %why not&%' rather than pushing an emotion it presents and illuminates an observation. (hether it be prescribed pre)udices or set laws, people s want to shatter the status $uo became increasingly clear throughout the duration of the 20th century and *ohn +age is the $uintessential e#ponent of such )ustified subversion. I hate to define great minds or artists by silly details such as their se#ual orientation or gender, but there is no doubt that a gay man s life during this time was one that came with an inherently rigid resistance. ,- 33 proposes a new kind of thinking and is asking for acceptance in an art form that it typically defined as the antonym of silence' .r maybe he )ust thought it would be a funny and silly thing to do.