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Old 11-22-2014, 09:43 AM   #166 (permalink)
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I just listened to the piece of music for the first time and to be honest I may have had a weird reaction that it was quite resounding to hear. To me the audience shuffling and uninformed anticipation in line with chatter in between parts was the music. The music by not being played created an ambiance that I'll never really forget and for whatever reason kept me on the edge of my seat. Well that was my reaction anyway to me it does undoubtedly scream music to me, but also something different. And as grindy said lowercase music can be at time composed of mainly silence.
So much for nobody actually sitting down at home to listen to it.

But yeah, it's one of the questions the piece poses. Is the piece the actual silence or the accidental sounds its silence frames?
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