What is the history of silence in music?

[french frank]

How far did you have to come to leave that message, SFactor123? Did it take you long?

Quite a long distance! I'm afraid SFactor123 is doomed to remain silent. Five messages in quick succession saying nothing and an irrelevant commercial website entered as homepage mean, 'Goodbye'...

[cloughie]

This IS music



and 4.33" is NOT a "novelty piece"

Don't know - I've never heard it!

[Bryn]

Don't know - I've never heard it!

Perhaps you mean, rather, you have never listened to it?

[MrGongGong]

Perhaps you mean, rather, you have never listened to it?

I was trying to find a recipe (see foody thread) that would go with this classic
maybe some 25 year old Talisker (which Worby insists was Cage's favourite whisky) ?

[Bryn]

I was trying to find a recipe (see foody thread) that would go with this classic
maybe some 25 year old Talisker (which Worby insists was Cage's favourite whisky) ?

Something for the hip flask, late night Prom August 14th, then:



It appears that 10 Year Talisker is on offer at Sainsbury's until 24th this month. At £27.59 it's a must, surely? (That's a 70ml bottle, not the hip gift pack illustrated.) FOr the 25 Year, Waitrose looks the best price:

http://www.waitrosewine.com/230406397/Product.aspx?source=gs

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

I was trying to find a recipe (see foody thread) that would go with this classic

It would have to involve a medley of freshly-picked wild mushrooms.

maybe some 25 year old Talisker (which Worby insists was Cage's favourite whisky) ?

Fond of Guiness, too.

[Bryn]

It would have to involve a medley of freshly-picked wild mushrooms.


Fond of Guiness, too.

Though not in later years when he was totally devoted to macrobiotics.

[Serial_Apologist]

Though not in later years when he was totally devoted to macrobiotics.

Which wouldn't have left mushroom...

Fungi at a party, I bet

[Wheels of Cheese]

Don't think anyone's yet mentioned that Great Artist of the Silent World - Luigi Nono.

Fragmente-Stille for String Quartet is a true study of music-in-silence; and silence is almost woven into the remarkable epic Prometeo... most dramatic and starkest of all, no hay caminos, hay que caminar, creates a bleak landscape from silence against long-drawn single notes, percussive outbursts, sudden screams from brass, surreal tinkling fragments of birdsong...

Post-nuclear, living in and with the webscape - either everything matters - or nothing does.

Just listened to it on youtube. Lordy, that's a thing...

[jayne lee wilson]

15/11/11 to 24/07/12... a truly appreciating, Nono-esque timeless timescale...
and, economically, the world is on the brink of something nuclear... always on the brink...

[verismissimo]

Bach uses "silence" dramatically in many of his organ works.