Response to "The Future of Music: Credo"

"We are shielded from new sound experiences." This is the statement that I found most interesting in this text. The idea that there is a certain sounds that people want to hear is questioned by Cage, and it really got me to think about this concept. It is true that people who create music are in fact censoring the listener from the actual sounds that exist by producing sounds that are considered "enjoyable" by the public. But to think about this idea and question it, is what I believe Cage is trying to address. This is something that has been brought up before in class and I think could be an interesting direction to take with my sound project. Some ideas I have considered are recording the sound of the same place on different days and replaying them together in that place to in effect explore other times and atmospheres of that location, or even reveling the sound of different locations to experience other places while experiencing the place you are in at that same time.