His intention in doing this was not to play a joke or make fun of the audience, this work without sound provides people with an opportunity to consider the essential nature of music, a point similar to that made by Laozi a thousand years earlier when he said: "The loudest music is made by the smallest sounds."
他並非在搞笑或愚弄觀眾，這一件無聲的作品在提供人們思索音樂的本質為何，與老子「大音希聲」有著異曲同工之妙。