Structure

Been thinking alot about structure these past few days.

John Cage, what they call an avant garde composer, created his own structures. He rewrote how music should be structured, redefined what structure could be.

I am nowhere near having the slightest incline as to what his structures were really about, but it has made me rethink the way I use structure in my music.

I guess you can think of structure as something entirely flexible. Do we need to keep conforming to the same structures as everybody else? Do we even need a structure? Does nature have a structure? Does the planet really have a structure? I think there are arguments for both sides.

I am wondering whether structure is simply just a 'man made' thing. Something we apply to things to help us understand them better.

Either way, I'm imagining the possibilities for what lies outside of structure. Just think what there could be, unconstrained by time, pitch, formula etc.