[silence] Composers who use lots of silence

[Ermes Rosina]

Tan Dun made a quite "cagean piece", like "Circle"...
http://www.tandunonline.com/composition.php?cmd=view&id=1&part=intro

But I think that Sofia Gubaijdulina, Salvatore Sciarrino, Giya Kancheli and
many Japanese composers like Toshio Hosokawa (with his emphasis on the
concept of "Ma": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ma_%28negative_space%29)  are
very interested in silence in its different meanings.

ermes



2009/1/16, Joseph Zitt <jzitt@metatronpress.com>:
>
> The composer who comes most immediately to mind is Francisco Lopez.
> Most of his music that I know begins and ends with extended silences,
> fading up and down very gradually in between.
>
> http://www.franciscolopez.net/
>
> On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 8:04 PM, John McDonough <bebopj@ix.netcom.com>
> wrote:
> > Besides Cage and the NY School, are there any composers who use
> > silence a lot? I'm looking for pieces that alternate a lot of
> > activity with silence, as opposed, for example, to Cage's number
> > pieces which alternate long tones with silences.
> >
> > Thanks in Advance
> >
> > John
> >
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