Re: Cage on sounds in your head [another view of tinitus]

[lance glover <baumhaus@earthlink.net>]

"Liebig, Steuart A." wrote:

>
>
> ** i wonder about the chronology of this incident vis a vis 4'33".
> maybe that was part of his insipration???
>
> stig
>
>
> > The BBC site has a summary of a documentary they're running on
> Radio4 on
> > experimental music.  There's a few audio clips of interviews, one of
> which
> > is with John Cage telling the story of his first visit to Harvard's
> anechoic
> > chamber, which to his surpise didn't *sound* silent when he was in
> it.  You
> > can listen to the Realaudio clip if you'd like, but for the
> > bandwidth-limited, he told one of the Harvard guys that something
> was wrong
> > with the "silent" room, because he heard two sounds in it--one very
> high,
> > the other very low.  Harvard's answer was that the high tone was the
> sound
> > of his nervous system, and the low tone was that of his circulatory
> system.
> >
> > http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/experimental.shtml
> >
> >
> > TH

yes, i recall reading this exact thing in "the roaring silence". i think
the experience not only inspired 4'33", but played a major role in
everything he did subsequently...sort of an "aha!"...

lance g.