Re: [microsound] w/r/t silence

[Arie van Schutterhoef <arsche@xxxxxxxxx>]

>didn't Cage actually prove that there was NO SUCH THING as silence? that we
>are always hearing through the gauze of biological noise?
-Yes, he locked himself up in a sound-shielded room and
 came to that conclusion.

>Cage used 'silence' as a way of turning our attention
>to sounds we normally filter out...no?
-Yes but perhaps also used the notion of 'silence'
 in a more metaphorical sense.

AvS

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