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“If Life Is Absurd, Why Not Have the Last Laugh?”
–The Wall Street Journal
is silence tangible?
More about Silence
- Suggested reading list on silence
- John Cage: Silence (this is the bible of John Cage fans – full of insight and anecdotes)
- Kyle Gann: No Such Thing as Silence (Gann was head music critic for the Village Voice)
- Salomé Voegelin: Silence and Noise (a modern take on sound art)
- Douglas Kahn: Noise Water Meat (a controversial rebuttal of many preconceived ideas)
- Film: Die große Stille (a mystical documentary about a french monastery)
- Movie: The Sound of Noise (Swedish alternative detective movie, hilarious, cult)
- Suggested listening list
- Arvo Pärt
- Meredith Monk
- Hildegaard Westerkamp
- Pauline Oliveros
- medieval music of the école de Notre Dame: especially Leonin and Pérotin
Topics
Maurice Ravel: Trio (Cluny)
