WHAT PHILOSOPHY SOUNDS LIKE (NOT SO PRETTY)

“If Milton Babbitt and John Cage are to be believed, it is almost beside the point to talk about whether their music sounds good or sounds bad. For both composers would admit that their music does not ‘sound good’ in the ordinary sense: instead, they would challenge that notion, and replace it with highly philosophical views that are meant to undermine our ordinary aesthetic judgments.” – Boston Review