The silence between the notes is as important as the notes themselves.
Einstein famously attributed some of his greatest physics breakthroughs to his violin breaks, which he believed connected different parts of his brain in new ways.
Maria Popova • Networked Knowledge and Combinatorial Creativity
Monk’s intimate, exhaustive and poetic improvisations pioneered new languages of modern jazz and helped birth bebop as a seminal art form. “And then there was the silence. There is nothing more daunting and mysterious. We flood silence with chatter, we fill it with noise or notes rather than let it reveal what it knows or just let it be,” wrote... See more
Some music is just imagined
The work comes out of Cage’s belief that the distinction between silence and sound, music and not-music, was arbitrary—silence is never really silent; and any auditory stimulus can be experienced as music, even if it’s not intentionally created by a trained musician. Someone who experiences 4’33” might, afterwards, have a totally different... See more