They are the building blocks of art.
I’m sure this is a preference question but here’s how I would answer “I would visit and John Cage from Los Angles and I would simply want to visit him and ask him about his composition of 4’33 because this just a rest note for a long time and it’s funny because it’s still consider a compostion”
Stravinsky worked in the same way, in fact, throughout his life, and the same basic principles of construction and dynamics inform Threni and the Requiem Canticles as Petrushka and The Rite of Spring. He had immense influence on the way later composers have felt pulse, rhythm, and form.
