What is the modern style of 4 minutes and 33 seconds?

There are many "uncertain" elements in 4 minutes and 33 seconds. From his creative idea, playing process to the audience's appreciation mode, randomness and uncertainty factors have been strengthened, making the work lose the "meta-meaning" of music. It directly challenges the western traditional music concept and the western modern music concept as a whole, that is, it is both anti-traditional and anti-modern, which makes it difficult for us to interpret it with traditional or even modernist music concepts.

The rupture of the "meaning" of music and the failure of aesthetic expectation have to make people think: what is music and what is its essence?

Creative concept:

Under the influence of Indian culture, Cage insists that the purpose of music is to "make the mind calm and peaceful" (see Listening to the World-A Biography of John Cage, edited by Yu Danhong, Shanghai Music Publishing House, 200 1 Edition, p. 74); Under the influence of Zen Buddhism and Yijing, Cage began to pay attention to the sound itself and adopted the "empty rhythm structure".

"Empty rhythm structure" means that the composer allows any sound to participate in it within a specified time and adheres to the principle of "the true colors of life", thus giving birth to the concept of accidental music creation. 4 minutes and 33 seconds is usually regarded as the best example of extremely accidental works or uncertain performance (see Yu Danhong's From Prefabricated Piano to 4 minutes and 33 seconds, in Music Art (Journal of Shanghai Conservatory of Music),No. 1 2000, p. 63).