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Heh. As opposed to brouhaha WITHOUT a statement.
I think that's actually a BWA-ha-ha...
I could be wrong.
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So then the question really is: was Trelane, in fact, a Q?
That was the premise of a ST:NextGen novel.
You have to wonder about those Thasians ("Charlie X") and Metrons ("Arena").
The galaxy at the time of TOS appeared to be fairly brimming with near omnipotent species. I think the Q are just the longest lived and the most (but not completely) omnipotent of them all.
Trelane could be a Q, but in their billions of years of existence, reproduction doesn't seem to be a thing they do very often, if at all (The Q and The Grey, notwithstanding). But apart from those 2 Voyager eps, we still don't know much about their social structures.
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(June 1st, 1953) -
"Dad, a man called John Cage is doing a concert where he sits at a piano and doesn't do anything for nearly five minutes. What a waste of taxpayers' money."
"Son, what ya gorra do is think outside the box. He might be making a comment on the relationship between Art and our perception of a vacuum."
"Gee Dad, I just don't get all this Dali fad. People with heads that don't even look real."
"Yup, you're getting there son."
"So, if I go and crap on a brick, then send it in a glass case to the Modern London Tate Valley Museum, would they put it on display and pay me for my movement?"
"No son. It doesn't work that way."
"But Dad, what's the difference?"
"Just give it time, son. You'll see."
And at that, Dad folded his newspaper, leaned back, and stared out from the porch to the glistening trees. He always used to say that the trees "glistened". And, just for a moment, I grasped it.
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For those willing to be more than dismissive of this experiment/manifesto, this is a good article exploring the Zen underpinnings.
https://www.lionsroar.com/433/
It also does a good job describing the first "performance", particularly showcasing why doing it the way they did ensured that people would take it the wrong way ever since. (If you don't want something to be taken as a joke, don't offer it that way.)
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What we need are fifty million "John Cage on..." threads. clearly we can't live without knowing what he thinks of this or that.
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I believe Quincy Jones can help you there...
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4'33' may not be music, but it IS, in context, a brilliant piece of visual performance art. That's its box.
It's a joke on one level about what art is, and on a deeper level, it's a statement about silences in music, being and non-being, the place BEYOND music, that bypasses the Pied Piper that music is, and gets to paradox and resolution. It's even about meditation in a modern world. And we project onto silences.
PERFORMANCE ART. JUDGE IT BY THAT.
Thor wants the 3'33" edited cut for a better album experience.
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