I love the idea of absence being a part of creative work. My mother once told me this story of a man who worked in radio, recording interviews. He liked the pauses between sentences and between answers and one day, he made his one interview: he spliced together all the pauses, all the silences from all the people he had ever recorded. A silent track of perhaps absence of speech, but not of silence.
I love the idea of absence being a part of creative work. My mother once told me this story of a man who worked in radio, recording interviews. He liked the pauses between sentences and between answers and one day, he made his one interview: he spliced together all the pauses, all the silences from all the people he had ever recorded. A silent track of perhaps absence of speech, but not of silence.
Wow- that's an amazing story. It's John Cage meets radio broadcasting! Silence, yet so much presence. Thank you.