Can you explain further, Hal? Because the audience perhaps shuffled
etc? The silence (whether real or not) was imposed by the artists, & I
certainly felt the impress of it, even if around me there may have been
little noises made by said audience in its discomfort. But no speaking.
Stephen Scobie & I tried something similar in one of our pieces, though
only for up to 30 seconds, & we felt the pressure to speak too....
Doug
On 26-Nov-05, at 9:24 AM, Halvard Johnson wrote:
> On Nov 26, 2005, at 11:11 AM, Douglas Barbour wrote:
>
>> To get back to Cage, when I heard him 'read' from one of his
>> read-throughs, one of he baffles he had set up was that a certain
>> throw of the dice required silence for the time it took his second
>> had to reach the minute. So from one to 59 seconds of silence as a
>> large room full of people waited for the next word. Boy, some of
>> those silences FELT really long.
>>
>> Doug
>
> Ah, but none of them were real silences.
>
> Hal "Music is continuous. Only listening
> is intermittent."
> --Henry David Thoreau
>
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