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Karl Holmqvist

Alice Cannava

Sounds Like Silence - John Cage - 4’33” – Silence Today Diaphanes but venturedThe title of this book and the exhibition it documentsSounds Like Silenceis ambiguous. On the one hand, silence effectively soundsor as Cage put it, There is no such thing as silence. On the other hand, sound needs silence in order to be heard. Even if complete silence does not exist, every sound implicitly conveys the notion of silence: there is no presence without absence. The double meaning of Sounds Like Silence therefore touches upon the central