The musical equivalent would be Cage's 4'33", 4 minutes and 33 seconds of nothing. Cage wrote it to challenge people's ideas about what music and sound were. The white painting would have been for the same purpose in art. They both push minimalism to the edge to make people think. Literally, neither of them are very interesting, but they serve as a fantastic point of discussion and an.
I haven't actually played Dear Esther, but it sounds like MM has the right idea.
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