John Cage became a well known sound artist / musician for pushing the boundaries of what the world knew to be "music" at the time. He is probably best known for his piece 4:33. An approximately four and a half minute sequence of silence from the pianist. This piece came with a lot of backlash, even Cage's own mother thought that her son was taking the idea of subjective sound a little too far. Upon its first performance, many people exited the theater and some wanted to drive Cage out of town. But within the minutes of silence, there were sounds emanating from other sources than the musician on stage. Rain drops could be heard hitting the roof, people shifting in the seats, muttering or even walking out the doors. Cage displayed that sound and music doesn't have to come from instruments, musicians or notes, it is simply around us all the time. He essentially changed the way we look at music forever, and who knows what kind of door ways and opportunities he opened for new musicians with the inspiration he provided. A famous quote from him is "There is no much thing as silence", conveying that noises and how they sound to us can be totally up to interpretation, and can give everyone their own unique experience. What might be distracting or disrupting to someone, could be a very pleasing or interesting sound to someone else. I love how he utilized common found objects to create sounds and appreciated the unharmonious music that the combination of different objects together could create.
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