[silence] silence, sound, music, noise

[Jim Flannery]

Tuesday, March 6, 2007, 5:50:22 AM, one spoke:

w> I'm a philosophy student and I'm writing my final work about the
w> boundaries between silence, sound, music and noise (the latter both
w> in a plain noise context, as in noise music. Obviously Cage is from
w> great importance

Douglas Kahn's _Noise, Water, Meat_ (MIT Press, ISBN 0262611724) is
excellent on this. His approach to Cage (and his relationship to sound
art both pre- and post-_Silence_) is unique, insightful and very
disruptive to the "standard model" of Cagean aesthetics.

-- 
Jim Flannery
jim@newgrangemedia.com