Music does not just live from Crescendo and over alarm, but also the opposite. A look at creative omissions.
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It is certainly one of the most impressive productions of silence within popular music: John Cage’s composition “4’33” from 1952. This piece requires interpret: inside, to let your instruments rest for four minutes and thirty -three seconds. The fascination: The silence can never be universal, the piece directs the listeners much more to ambient noises and questions the traditional idea of music.
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One step further into art? OK! Because the performative “Piano Drop” by Yoko Ono also plays on an interface of music and art with silence. In 2000, the musician Beck repeated the art campaign of the Japanese and cried a piano from the Burgzessen of the North Rhine -Westphalian Palace Moyland. This is not just about the explosive sound of the impact-without the breathless silence during the case, this fluxus moment would simply be just noise. Only the toneless flight invites the Ary Demolition derby in a matter of seconds.
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Does anyone remember the innovative strength of CDs in the nineties? The digital sound changed everything, but the new technical possibilities also had the acts discovered the power of silence. In the phenomenon of the hidden tracks. Apparently the CD had reached the end, but it continued, as resourceful ghosts had inserted empty tracks or the like and suddenly a “hidden” song sounds after minutes of silence. Anyone who has not fallen out of the armchair because of this because of this has really missed the nineties and two thousands.
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A bit of a contradiction: The silence is often sung in pieces, of course without being able to move in. In the end, however, in the end you always end up in the calm, albeit in no way silent port of Art Garfunkel’s “The Sound of Silence” from No Doully Osbournes “Shut Up” and Björk’s “It’s oh so quiet”.
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A mention of the band EA80 “Dr. Murke’s collected silence ”, which condenses the short story of Heinrich Böll to barely two minutes. The story about the cut breaks of radio interviews recently let Gwen Dolyn (from tears) revive in an electropop cover version of “Dr. Murkes ”.
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But the silence itself also contributes a lot to music. Short breaks are the secret stars on many a hit. For example, at James Blake’s “Limit to your love”, the tension of which is just nourishing through the omissions. The beat as a heartbeat and when it exposes it remains silence in which you keep your breath until the next blow releases the track.
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The art break, i.e. the little moment of silence, is often used in the skirt to increase the dynamics. Very concise safe with the Stop and Go on “Waiting Room”-the best known piece of the legendary Washington Post-Hardcore band Fugazi.
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Another genre: The Strokes with “Hard to Explain”, the two and a half seconds of silence break in the middle of the piece completely surprisingly-and act tonelessly as a hello-wach moment. “Is the electricity gone?” One wonders, but then it continues just as suddenly.
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Billie Eilish also drove the dosed silence into a championship. Perfect example of this is your song “When the Party’s Over”, whose clip on YouTube is now scratching a billion.
Again and again the piece seems to break down or break in, get voice and music, silence spreads, in order to be broken again. Enjoy the Silence.