Today the word “music” is as outmoded as the word “shay” and has about as much connection with what is going on in America, Europe, and Japan as Euterpe has with choruses. Perhaps we should substitute Edgar Varèse’s definition of music as “organized sound,” provided we add two words from John Cage, making it “organized sound and silence.”

by Faubion Bowers and Daniel Kunin from “The Electronics of Music” in Aspen no.4 Spring 1967