a. silence
b. work
c. solitude
d. friendship
e. non-minimalist notions of what is actually possible.
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7 comments:
in a text concerning the relation between modernist poetry and post war composers, john cage qualifies between several types of silences.
there is the silence as an absence of sound/noice/information. this, to cage, is a fake silence, where the absence is going through the motions of artistic practice without knowing what it really means to withhold information. it's the charlatan's pose. cage considers this silence to be manipulative and calculating and is aimed at serving one's own goals: aesthetic, moral, political or other. this includes using silence to intimidate and threaten someone. this silence works as an insult to the listener/user/viewer, but most commonly as boredom.
then there's silence as a sort of muteness. this is a conflicted and partially dynamic silence that resides in constraint, an inability to communicate - wanting to but not finding the way to do it. hence silence. cage considers this as a pubesent silence, less than mature and far from accomplished or well thought-through, but not fake.
and there is the pause. the most positively and creatively charged of the silences discussed by cage. the listener/reader/user is in constant suspence and anticipation: is it going to end? when? how? will the silence reveal itself then as containing information and sentiments that was unable to be expressed in any other way? the manifest lack is generative and suggestive, inviting and flattering. this is very hard to acheive and cage can only mention a handfull of such incidents.
Actually, the answer is D.
p.s. I'd like to know your sources, Anonymous. Cage is a very smart man. My favorite quote (by no means obscure) is: "I have nothing to say, and I'm saying it."
Drw
well, I have a version of this text from a bilingual (swedish-danish) litterary magazine called Pequod (1992). in an issue dedicated to the relationship between music and poetry a series of texts were translated. cage's text was one. if I can find it again amongst all my stuff I'll see what the original text is called. the best text in this issue, as I remember it, was written by boris vian and concerned the reasons why a record (lp) was round, black and with a hole in the middle, and engraved with a barely visible spiral.
the answer id D?
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favorite pause:
the silence between the burst of light in a thunderstorm and the following thunder - counting, temporalizing the space, situating yourself to the spectacle.
social silences tend to be more smug than spectacular, I find.
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