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'Silence is something that starts in your mind.
In physical terms, there is no silence.
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It's hard to believe, but everything is quieter today than it was thirty years ago, trains, cars, computers and so far we have the feeling that it has become louder.
Everyone is constantly busy these days, and it starts in the morning with breakfast, checking mobile phones, reading news, chatting, posting, never resting, always busy with work, sport, events, checking what's on, mobile phones always in view, making sure we don't miss anything. Friends, social media, what's going on, everywhere and at all times, without a break until late at night.
A little sleep and the hamster wheel begins again..... Day after day...... without peace and quiet.
The initial evaluation of noise is not negative, noise is evaluated negatively by those who perceive it.
For one person heavy metal is noise and for another it is not. It takes place within ourselves to perceive it as such.
It's the same with silence, because we can no longer enjoy silence due to the constant need to occupy ourselves.
Silence comes from standing still, remaining still, keeping still.
If you want to experience silence, you first have to let your thoughts sink in, to put it simply.
Silence can be unbearable if you can't find the peace to endure it.
In silence we fall back on ourselves and ideally we become the silence.
A walk in the woods can create silence or you can experience it. Although the forest is never quiet, it is full of sounds, cracking, chirping, rustling and so on.
But ideally we perceive this as silence. Silence has nothing to do with soundlessness.
Those who are at peace with themselves can experience silence everywhere, even in a noisy city.
But those who are not used to silence should seek it in seclusion, a church, a quiet place or room are the best starting point to find silence.
Silence takes place in our heads and in our minds.
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4′33″ (four minutes, thirty-three seconds or four thirty-three) is a "silent" piece of music in three movements written in 1952 by the American avant-garde composer John Cage. As not a single note is played for the entire duration of the composition, its performance challenges the conventional notion of music. 4′33″ has thus become a key work of New Music and inspires listeners, composers and performers alike to reflect on music and silence.
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Why is the piece of music "4'33" by John Cage so famous?
Probably for the first time in the history of modern music, the behaviour of the audience became more important for a single work than what was happening on stage. A collective meditation on silence that had a huge impact on pop culture.
The rolling stone magazine
Meditation is to be aware of every thought and of every feeling, never to say it is right or wrong, but just to watch it and move with it. In that watching, you begin to understand the whole movement of thought and feeling. And out of this awareness comes silence.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
There is no such thing as an empty space or an empty time. There is always something to see, something to hear. In fact, try as we may to make a silence, we cannot.
John Cage
If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all.
John Cage