no silence

[George Demarest <george.demarest@oracle.com>]

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An interesting quote from John Cage on silence, from his piece Indeterminacy (1965).

"It was after I got to Boston that I went into the anechoic chamber at Harvard University. Anybody who knows me knows this story. I am constantly telling it. Anyway, in that silent room, I heard two sounds, one high and one low. Afterward I asked the engineer in charge why, if the room was so silent, I had heard two sounds. He said, "Describe them." I did. He said, "The high one was your nervous system in operation. The low one was your blood in circulation."

There you have it.  Silence?  there ain't none!

gfd