Scholarly discussion of the music of John Cage.

["Goldstein, Louis" <>]

Barbara Scales to Dionisis, silence

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Indeed - There is
 MetaMusik - the stunning piano concerto - which, Jenny Lin performed 
with the Winnipeg Symphony  at their New Music Festival in 2010.

Barbara


And a great recording of MetaMusik on ECM.  Dennis R. Davies and the Vienna Radio Orch (I forgot the pianist's name!)

Also   ---   "Emanations" by Steve Peters - soft sounds barely edging in and retreating to inaudibility.
And Bernhard Gunter's "Time, Dreaming Itself,"  almost constant sound, but .....

Louie

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On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 5:14 AM, Dionisis Boukouvalas <> wrote:

Hmm...
of course the word itself in the title would no justify it as "depiction of silence".
On the other hand, there are works out there that could be described as such without having the word "silence" in their title (see the "wild life" example I mentioned in my first email).

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Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2011 11:55:19 -0500
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Subject: [silence] Re: RE: Re: non-silent depictions of silence

On Jul 28, 2011, at 9:32 AM, Dionisis Boukouvalas wrote:

This would make for a fascinating compilation :-)

I agree! I did a quick check of my iTunes list

and there are over 300 tunes with the word "silence" - 

much too large for such a compilation.

Rod

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