What an extraordinarily interesting idea, Craig! I'll have to let Brian Eno know about this. Eno was recently talking about the possibilities of a new kind of "inaudible music". Actually, John Cage already "invented" that in the '50s with his infamous piece "4'.33" " - where the pianist walks to the keyboard, sits there for 4 minutes and 33 seconds (without playing anything) and then gets up and leaves. The "music" is in fact all the little reactionary giggles, guffaws, sighs etc. of the audience's outraged reaction. Also the tweets of the little birdies in the trees outside etc. It qualifies as music because each and every performance of 4'. 33" is different. The environment interprets the score; the performer is merely the catalyst. And I can assure you, good old John Cage was no stranger to the odd hallucinogenic experience.
Can we encode the music of silence in binary? Kim On 09/02/2013, at 10:45 AM, Craig Weinberg <[email protected]> wrote: > If music were just an audible math though, then people should enjoy watching > oscilloscope renditions of songs with no sound as much as they do listening > to them. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
