Silence/Stories WEB CONCEPT, DESIGN : RALPH LICHTENSTEIGER HTTP://WWW.LICHTENSTEIGER.DE/STORIES.HTML “Silence is a word which is not a word, and breath an object which is not an object.” ̶ Georges Bataille “The reason I am less and less interested in music is not only that I find environmen- tal sounds and noises more useful aesthetical- ly than the sounds produced by the world’s musical cultures, but that, when you get right down to it, a composer is simply someone who tells other people what to do. I find this an unattractive way of getting things done.” ̶ John Cage, A Year from Monday “For in this new music nothing takes place but sounds: those that are notated and those that are not. Those that are not notated appear in the written music as silences, opening the doors of the music to the sounds that happen to be in the environment. This openness exists in the fields of modern sculpture and architecture. (...)” ̶ John Cage, Silence, Lectures & Writings Participants | Contributors Miekal And · Yassine Aissaoui · John M. Bennett Anne Bichon · Stephanie Boisset Arthur Chandler · Claude Chuzel Thanos Chrysakis · Lowell Cross · A. P. Crumlish Alvin Curran · Doyle Dean · James Drew Jude D’Souza · Karlheinz Essl Raymond Federman · Jesse Glass Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht · Peter Gutmann Gordon Hempton · Martin Hawes August Highland · Justin Katko · Matthias Kaul George Henry Koehler · Richard Kostelanetz Tamara LaÏ · Fabien Lévy · Ian S. Macdonald Mike Pearson · Harry Polkinhorn Friedhelm Rathjen · Lothar Reitz Mitchell Renner · Terry Rentzepis Kathleen Ruiz · Mike Silverton · Damon Smith Rod Stasick · Beat Streuli · Lun-Yi Tsai Lawrence Upton · Tracy Youell · Dan Waber Louise Waller · Todd Weinstein · John Whiting © 2006 BY MUSIQUE TROUVÉ
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