John Zorn. Steve Reich. John Cage. Terry Riley. Anthony Braxton. John Coltrane. Sun Ra. Rashied Ali. These men made music. In the sense that music is an art form and the form is manipulated by the content. Essentially taken the theory of music and putting it to use. The above composers and musicains pushed the limits of contemporary music and have only received a small amount of credit for their work, considering what has happened in music upon each of the artist releases. Whether it was "phasing", "alternate composition", minimalism, fee jazz, or space, these men have created music that some claim to be to intelligent and cannot grasp, while some regard to their work as remarkable advancement in music. Call it theory, call it chaos, call it noise, call it inaccessible, I call it music in the purest sense.