Re: [microsound]digital silence

[Andrew Boughen <fugggs@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Well said


> From: Kenric McDowell <kenric@xxxxxxxx>

> I'm saying that it's not going to give you much enlightenment either way:
> These types of experiments, sampling nothing, performing with an empty
> sampler, must fall in the lineage of Cage's interest in silence which comes
> from zen. The richness of this practice of looking at nothing (or walls or
> whatever) is alluded to but cannot be fulfilled in these experiments 
> because
> what is revealed are not the limits of our perception or the impenetrable
> unity of reality but the structure of a digital file. There is a thread of
> hacker mysticism that makes zen-like metaphors for technical constructs 
> that
> are ultimately human/culturally born. We should be careful not to fall into
> this trap.
>
> -km

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