Now, II thought Andrew would have commented by now, quoting Miles
Davis on the necessity of silence in music. What's between the notes
being as important as the notes themselves.
Or that silence sometimes between the words, the phrases.
Or all the sounds IN the silence, as Cage revealed....
Which, yes, perhaps we fear....
Doug
On 16-Oct-09, at 9:04 AM, Patrick McManus wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-10-14 at 04:29 -0700, Brian Hawkins wrote:
>
>> Perhaps our culture has a problem with silence, including the
>> silences
> between words.
>
> It is supposed to be one of those golden rules of radio production: no
> silence allowed.
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