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This article talks about the Davis Tudor performing a piece of music where he didn’t play anything. While at first, many wonder why that would make any sense, he is really testing the definition of music. He proposed the question, is no music still music. Can you sit down at a piano, not have played anything, but still have been performing music. This connects back to digital art as we talk about creating illusions. When we are looking at a picture that has been drawn of a cat, we are not really looking at a cat. Our eyes are being deceived so that the change in color creates the illusion that there is a cat. So, if someone is performing music without playing anything, could the lines still move, meaning every note is a rest? What if someone went to make a piece of art, but didn’t draw on it and said, here is my piece of art. In all honesty, it may suite the definition, but it is a pretty stupid experiment. There is no really pleasure in viewing someone that has been left as an empty canvas in the realm of art of music. That is why we admore well done and great art or music more. The artists has achieved a higher standard of accomplishment for being able to create someone so compex and put their canvas to work. Still, art is experimental, and Tudor still created art in my eyes. While it didn’t seem filled with talent, it brings up a good debate.