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

["whiteoakstudios" <whiteoakstudios@supanet.com>]

> 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.

Trouble is, he then went on to describe these sounds as music -thereby 
hangs
a very long tail......
I always think of a prison with a toilet in it when I hear his name...

Gareth