If the audience doesn't hear what is going on, is it going on?

The science is in knowing; the art in perceiving.

Michael Giles the first drummer of King Crimson, never agreed to the name King Crimson. But then, if you'd knew Michael, you would know he didn't agree to the album cover either. So maybe Michael didn't agree to the point of definition with many things.

Expectation closes the door to what is happening in the moment.

However, in modern conceptual frameworks there is a more sophisticated view. I would say that the act of music exists in several worlds simultaneously.

When music appears which only King Crimson can play, then, sooner or later, King Crimson appears to play the music.

Music is the cup which holds the wine of silence.