Date: Thu, 16 Nov 1995 14:00:23 -0500 (EST) From: Stephen Tompkins <st265089-AT-oak.cats.ohiou.edu> Subject: Re: Music, Nietzsche, Rhythm Ingrid, I think that's who I was trying to recall. thanx. one of my mentors was discussing this with respect to semiotics, apparently, I too, must have been a somnabulist that day. He really slept through the entire thing? was there applause? if so, did it wake him? ahhhh, dead intervals - way way back in high school, we were screamed at in a local radio show for "dead air"! - Maledetto colui che contrista un spirto immortal! - Cursed whoever saddens an immortal spirit! On Thu, 16 Nov 1995, Ingrid Markhardt wrote: > Are you thinking of John Cage? His recordings of (necessaril)y atonal and > random, accidental sounds, freely "arranged" -- like traffic sounds, etc? or > "dead" intervals... In a kind of 50's zen a la expressionism (I attended one of > his concerts some 4 years ago -- the aged composer slept through the > performance, a delightful (non-)event... But I think we would have to ask, > how does one write/play/perform _silence_ -- even to speak it is a violation of > it, etc. ? (silence, being the essence of rhythm, the dionysian) > > > speaking of which, any thoughts out there on my earlier question, re the lyric? > > Ingrid > > > --- from list nietzsche-AT-jefferson.village.virginia.edu --- > --- from list nietzsche-AT-jefferson.village.virginia.edu --- ------------------
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