meaning concrete music ), contradictory to classical music which starts from abstract notations , starts with the ‘ concrete ’ sound produced by the environment and then abstracted into notation form . Essentially he breaks the musical rules of time , harmony and rhythm , redefining music both sonically and theoretically . John Cage ’ s took these movements into consideration with the piece ‘ Four minutes , Thirty-three seconds ’. Composed in 1952 for any combination of instruments , this was a performance whereby the music score instructed the musician not to play . The ‘ 4.33 ’ were in fact filled by the white noise of the public and environment of the performance at that given time / place . This is an example of a kind of musical paralel to Barthes and Hall ’ s theories — when universal sensory stimuli are taken out of their quotidian boundaries and re-defined and re-represented .
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