John Cage turned to Zen Buddhism and other Eastern philosophies and concluded that all the activities that make up music must be seen as part of a single natural process. He came to regard all kinds of sounds as potentially musical and encouraged audiences to take note of all sonic phenomena, rather than only those elements selected by a composer.
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