Silence enables sound to form musical relationships

Evidence

Silence seems to make music from everything, simply by isolating individual sounds, allowing the sounds time to form temporal relationships. Music is made out of rests and notes. Quiet times and exciting times, silence and sound. We need them both. More than any other sense, hearing unites everything. — Gordon Hempton, John Grossmann, One Square Inch of Silence- One Man’s…, 612

Categorization

• FICTION: The rests-and-notes metaphor for silence is a poetic scaffold a nature writer could build a whole essay or scene around — dialogue as silence shaping sound.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Gordon Hempton, John Grossmann, One Square Inch of Silence- One Man’s…, 612
• XREF: connects to: Disparate sounds can be unified through relational listening — Pauline Oliveros, Deep Listening, 295; The most valued sound is the silence anticipating a sound, the space between notes; Silence functions as the measure that structures both music and physical space — George Michelsen Foy, Zero Decibels: The Quest for Absolute…, 295 (+5 more)

Broader Connections

• Silence functions as the measure that structures both music and physical space #expands (0.90) — George Michelsen Foy, Zero Decibels, 295
• Silence in art functions as medium for listener’s own creative imagination #expands (0.70) — George Michelsen Foy, Zero Decibels, 242
• Silence takes its meaning from surrounding sound #complicates (0.60) — Schafer, Murray R, The Soundscape- Our Sonic Environment…, 864