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Posts: 35 · Posted: Mon Apr 20, 2009 7:53 am

No consideration of live music performances can ever be complete without including the musical inspirations invoked by silence.
I recommend John Cage 433 (available for download on you tube)
Which is in fact 4 minutes 33 seconds of pure silence recorded by a full symphony Orchestra complete with a baton wielding conductor with a full theatre audience.
Google and enjoy!...........(the file was too large to be attached)

Posts: 23 · Posted: Mon Apr 20, 2009 8:02 am

that is incredibly interesting and different. very very avant garde. I like.

Posts: 1 · Posted: Thu Sep 15, 2011 1:05 am

Alas, Mr. Cage himself admitted later that this was a purely artificial recording and that there was no silence in nature. Indeed, if nothing else, all people hear at least two things - the sounds of their circulatory and nervous systems.

Yet another time he said that he didn't even intend to record silence; he just wanted to catch the casual noise of the audience.

So - if you are romantic enough, you can get inspired by silence, but never, never, never can you get the silence itself.