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Old 12-25-2014, 11:44 PM   #11 (permalink)
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I guess it goes back to the "if a tree falls" question. The point of the piece is that we should understand that there really is a lot going on within a supposed silence. Since we will never be outside of that experience, we will never know silence. This gives the piece noise in some sense because there will be a listener who inherently makes noise with their bodily functions.

Man I'm too drunk to be this pretentious right now. I'll pick this up tomorrow, I've a long train ride.
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