Scholarly discussion of the music of John Cage.

[Semih Firincioglu <>]

As far as I know, the person who told John that was a technician, not a doctor or a scientist. I had seen comments here and there that hearing the blood flow and the nervous system is not possible. Yet, whenever I get a hearing test I of course think of this and hear a very distant white noise-like something. My arteries seem to be OK. It may just be the assumption of the brain as long as it is wired to the eardrums and that, I think, still proves that there can be no silence.

Regarding John's stroke (40 some years after the chamber experience!): He had this habit of brewing some awful tasting, VERY strong tea and he had the stroke in the afternoon, while he was preparing tea before Cunningham's arrival from work. That's my very unscientific suspicion. That tea had given me palpitations at the age of 40.

On Wed, Jul 27, 2016 at 3:59 PM, Stefano Pocci <> wrote:

On 27.07.2016 20:36, David Bellows wrote:

Has anyone looked into Pauline Oliveros's account? Cage visited the
anechoic chamber some 40 years before he died. Would the conditions
that lead to his stroke been so easily observable to him then? In
other words would it have been more likely that he would have had that
stroke much earlier than he did if he really was hearing what Oliveros
is saying here?

In any case I hadn't heard that before and it is very interesting,
thanks for sharing!

That testimony from Oliveros was really interesting. Never heard it before. Thanks for sharing.
I agree with Ninh though about the high frequency sound. I experienced it in a bog in Estonia in the fall of 2013. No wind, no animals, no cars in the distance. Absolutely nothing. Or something? :)

Stefano

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Semih Firincioglu