Without silence, does sound exist?
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Soundscape made using techniques similar to Alvin Luciers "I am sitting in a room"
Animation made using painting and methods of stop motion
Final work, Experimental film
The work was projected in a blackened room allowing only one person to enable introspection in isolation. Several speakers were used with different sound tracks playing along with the visual to disturb the viewer by overstimulation. This was then followed by the atmospheric sounds of silence.
Exhibition at Cema Gallery, Srishti Old Campus
Now we will count to twelve
and we will all keep still.
For once on the face of the earth,
let’s not speak in any language;
let’s stop for one second,
and not move our arms so much.
It would be an exotic moment
without rush, without engines;
we would all be together
in a sudden strangeness.
An excerpt from “ Keeping Quiet ”
by Pablo Neruda
References : Susan Sontag “The Aesthetics of Silence.”; Carl G Jung On Noise In Modern Times; What silence taught John Cage: The story of 4’33” ; Neruda, Pablo. “Keeping Quiet; The Earth Has a Soul: The Nature Writings of C.G. Jung;
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