dots in space

John Cage talks about silence and sound.Exploring Duchamp's understanding of music as spatial and Kant's philosophy that sounds are nothing, never expecting them to be more than what the really are.
“People expect listening to be more than listening. I love sounds, just as they are, and don’t expect them to be more than they are. The sound experience which I prefer to all others is the experience of silence.”

Cage

Listen to him here.

Arvo Part

Arvo Pärt is an Estonian classical composer. Since the late 1970s, Pärt has been working in a minimalist style that employs a self-made compositional technique called tintinnabuli. His music also finds its inspiration and influence from the Gregorian chant.Thats him there breaking down the silence.

Never Just Looking

As I continue pulling threads from what I have been previously writing, here is another example of never just looking.Susan Meiselas is a renowned photographer working with Magnum Photos, France.Take a look at this excerpt from her work, which is being exhibited in Paris by Magnum Photos called 'Never Just Looking, here.

Seen above is a photo-narrative I particularly find interesting.A compelling equation of emptiness,physical movement and silence.This was photographed by Elliot Erwitt in 1968 as part of a photo-documentation called 'Unseen' at Biarritz, France.

Photos Courtesy : Magnum Photos

Time moves slowly today.The onset of evening.4pm.Traversing through my silent soundscape.
Listening to the last set,Brody in The Pianist.Passing thought.It would be fun casting Mr.Brody.I'd go mad with detail and movement,silence and speech,breathing,stillness.Someday!

For now,reaching back into the silence of sound.Taking off from a thesis I wrote a year back,I had a mad urge to dig it back into form.It was already looming over my head,a dark cloud in the wee hours of the morning, I slept fitfully.

The past weeks have gone by listening to a load of music.Too much information meted out.All I could do was to ween out singular sounds.The only way I could make sense of my listening.Pull out,listen,put back,take the whole.No structures.Dwindling shapes.

And so I found Andreas Bick who was pouring out my thoughts in his space.I sat wallowing on the side.Then I dove in.
Bick,composer and sound artist based in Berlin, writes about sound related things in general.He puts it out there interestingly,says, silent listening is about the fringes of music, the periphery where music turns into sheer sound- concrete, wild, sometimes stunning.Am in that silent space,the periphery.
Am coming back with more..