SOUNDS LIKE SILENCE - JOHN CAGE - 4’33” – SILENCE TODAY / Inke Arns, Dieter Daniels REFLECTA Through historical and contemporary perspectives

Through historical and contemporary perspectives

In the end

First published in 1994 and regularly reissued and expanded since

Published by Purple Institute

Size: 105 x 162 mm

SOUNDS LIKE SILENCE - JOHN CAGE - 4’33” – SILENCE TODAY / Inke Arns, Dieter Daniels REFLECTA Through historical and contemporary perspectivesJohn Cage433433Inke ArnsDieter DanielsSOUNDS LIKE SILENCE195282943319621992 The title of this book and the exhibition it documentsSounds Like Silenceis ambiguous. On the one hand, silence effectively soundsor as Cage put it, There is no such thing as silence. On the other hand, sound needs silence in order to be heard. Even if complete silence does not exist, every sound implicitly conveys the notion of silence: there is no presence without absence.