RE: Cage on sounds in your head [another view of tinitus]

["Liebig, Steuart A." <Steuart.Liebig@maritz.com>]

Title: RE: Cage on sounds in your head [another view of tinitus]

** i wonder about the chronology of this incident vis a vis 4'33". maybe that was part of his insipration???

stig

> The BBC site has a summary of a documentary they're running on Radio4 on
> experimental music.  There's a few audio clips of interviews, one of which
> is with John Cage telling the story of his first visit to Harvard's anechoic
> chamber, which to his surpise didn't *sound* silent when he was in it.  You
> can listen to the Realaudio clip if you'd like, but for the
> bandwidth-limited, he told one of the Harvard guys that something was wrong
> with the "silent" room, because he heard two sounds in it--one very high,
> the other very low.  Harvard's answer was that the high tone was the sound
> of his nervous system, and the low tone was that of his circulatory system.
>
> http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/experimental.shtml
>
>
> TH