Scholarly discussion of the music of John Cage.

[David Badagnani <>]

Although I've always pronounced it SO-may SA-toe, the standard rōmaji (romanization) of Somei Satoh's name:  kanji:  佐藤 聰明 / hiragana:  さとう そうめい is Satō Sōmei.  Like Finnish or Hungarian (and unlike Spanish or Latin), I don't think there are strong accents in Japanese two-syllable words, but the ō vowels are longer so might sound stressed when speaking the name.  Sōmei literally means "intelligence."  I'm sure many list members know Japanese much better than I do, though.

On a related note, Toru Takemitsu said “I would like to achieve a sound as intense as silence.”

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David Badagnani

Kent, Ohio

USA

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From: Dionisis Boukouvalas <>
To: Silence <>
Sent: Wednesday, October 26, 2011 2:42 AM
Subject: [silence] about Somei Satoh

Slightly irrelevant (but check out what Satoh says about silence here: http://www.wix.com/someis/home#!info), but I think someone here might know how to pronounce "Somei Satoh". Are the accents on the o's?