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E-book Echoes of No Thing: Thinking between Heidegger and Dogen

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ohn Cage’s 4'33" remains an echo, a repetition of the space of silence and all silence entails. Performed for the first time by pianist David Tudor in 1954 during a piano recital in Wood-stock, New York, it asks of the performer to sit at the piano, and to “perform” a piece of music. Tudor interpreted the instruc-tions Cage had written and sat at the piano, with the lid raised, for two minutes and twenty-three seconds. He then closed the lid, checked his watch, and raised it again. He sat for another two minutes, and then left the stage. Whereas the music cre-ated during a conventional concert, in effect, banishes the sound of the world by filling a discrete space with a sequence of pre-selected notes, Cage’s 4'33" — performed as silence — beckons sound forth, to come forward, to intrude or even to rest in the space. Sound, noise, voice, music are all made present through silence’s be-coming. An echo of silence shelters and holds itself as silence as a vessel or form holds itself. In the destruction of silence, noise creates the piece. Noise presencing is allowed to be revealed through the absenting of action, through the absent-ing of the intentional making of a note, of composed, ordered music. In English, the verb “to make” remains the same whether one is making a building or work of art. In Latin, however, we can separate the two terms; facio, which refers to the making of material things, is contrasted to creo which, as its name im-plies, refers to the creation of a thing. Creation carries with it a semblance of the divine, something which is primordial, un-made. Allowing noise to come forward as an incipient irrup-tion into the silence, to be-come, is an unmaking of its origi-nal form. Though criticized as a sham and a farce at the time, 4'33" has become an iconic1 piece of “music” and inscribes per-fectly a silence between words (without language) as the space between notes, between intentional noises. What is important about the piece, however, is not its shock value, but rather the attempt Cage made to say, or to think, silence within sounds, to think the unsignable within an architecture of signs, to say — or give voice to — the unsayable, that which refuses to be said, and which emerges in the space between, and which makes noise qua noise impossible.

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Judul Seri

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No. Panggil

181.1 JEN e

Penerbit

New York : Punctum books., 2019

Deskripsi Fisik

212 hlm

Bahasa

English

ISBN/ISSN

9781950192014

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181.1

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text

Tipe Media

computer

Tipe Pembawa

online resource

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Subjek

Far East and South Asia Philosophy

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