Re: [microsound] herbs&spice and everything nice and silent

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>> Interesting. So if the tool is the message, then the message is death?
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>no.
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>silence...
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>... and back to John Cage.

So there's an outlet to Cage's silence when restricting the message
("meaning" to me) of a gesture to the perceived implications of using a
particular communications apparatus. Could you provide a reference to
Cage's concept of silence being a such a closed system? It would be great
if you could tie McLuhan in here too, to cover the "tool is the message"
precursor.