Falling Silence (listening experience) ~ Paolo Di Rocco
- 5 years ago
“There is no such thing as an empty space or an empty time. There is always something to see, something to hear. In fact, try as we may to make a silence, we cannot.”
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During the first year of composition at the Department of Electronic Music of the Conservatory of L'Aquila one of the lessons dealt with the topic of silence. I had never thought about the importance of silence in music. It was inevitable to get in touch with the composer John Cage and his piece 4'33 ''.
All information about 4'33' can be found on Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4%E2%80%B233%E2%80%B3
I quote a passage taken from the Wikipedia that gives the idea of what inspired my tribute:
"In 1951, Cage visited the anechoic chamber at Harvard University. An anechoic chamber is a room designed in such a way that the walls, ceiling and floor absorb all sounds made in the room, rather than reflecting them as echoes. Such a chamber is also externally sound-proofed. Cage entered the chamber expecting to hear silence, but he wrote later, "I heard two sounds, one high and one low. When I described them to the engineer in charge, he informed me that the high one was my nervous system in operation, the low one my blood in circulation." Cage had gone to a place where he expected total silence, and yet heard sound. "Until I die there will be sounds. And they will continue following my death. One need not fear about the future of music." The realization as he saw it of the impossibility of silence led to the composition of 4′33″."
All the duration vaulues of the two musical events "sound and silence" are taken from the Fibonacci sequence. This piece was made with the software Max/MSP.
I thank Claudio Patta for drawing the ball you see in the video.
To John Cage and Michelangelo Lupone.
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During the first year of composition at the Department of Electronic Music of the Conservatory of L'Aquila one of the lessons dealt with the topic of silence. I had never thought about the importance of silence in music. It was inevitable to get in touch with the composer John Cage and his piece 4'33 ''.
All information about 4'33' can be found on Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4%E2%80%B233%E2%80%B3
I quote a passage taken from the Wikipedia that gives the idea of what inspired my tribute:
"In 1951, Cage visited the anechoic chamber at Harvard University. An anechoic chamber is a room designed in such a way that the walls, ceiling and floor absorb all sounds made in the room, rather than reflecting them as echoes. Such a chamber is also externally sound-proofed. Cage entered the chamber expecting to hear silence, but he wrote later, "I heard two sounds, one high and one low. When I described them to the engineer in charge, he informed me that the high one was my nervous system in operation, the low one my blood in circulation." Cage had gone to a place where he expected total silence, and yet heard sound. "Until I die there will be sounds. And they will continue following my death. One need not fear about the future of music." The realization as he saw it of the impossibility of silence led to the composition of 4′33″."
All the duration vaulues of the two musical events "sound and silence" are taken from the Fibonacci sequence. This piece was made with the software Max/MSP.
I thank Claudio Patta for drawing the ball you see in the video.
To John Cage and Michelangelo Lupone.