The absence of sound

INTRODUCTION:SOUND

In physics, sound is a vibration that propagates waves through a medium suchas air or water. In physiology and psychology, sound is the reception of such waves andtheir perception by the brain.

THE PHYSICS OF SOUND• We can represent sound on a graph with a wave.• The wave has 4 parts:• Amplitude: a displacement from the resting position• Period: a repetition of the wave• Frequency: how many cycles per second• Pulse: 2π times the wave

SILENCE

Silence is a wave without amplitude.If we are alive it is impossible to hear it, theonly way we can hear it is after death becauseif a creature hears sound it means he is alive.

Silence in art

• Literature• Sculpture• Painting• Music• Videogames

Edgar Allan PoeOne of Poe’s poems tells about therelationship between silence and life.The protagonist of the story lives in Libyanear a muddy river named Zaire.The waters are covered with lilies thatsigh at the sound of the wind and allaround there is a forest where the rainbecomes human blood falling on Earth.The protagonist walks around the river; hecan see a large boulder upon whichsomeone wrote "DESOLATION" and sees aman sitting on top of it.The man does not understand suchbehavior and after a while begins to cursesilently against him. Suddenly everythingturns bleak and the word carved on therock turns into "Silence“ so that thefrightened man runs away. Silence. William Heath Robinson,

from The poems of Edgar Allan Poe,London, New York, 1900. (Source:archive.org)(https://www.pinterest.com/pin/386957792958114361/)

Jean Arp

“ Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day afterday he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from theessence of life, contemplation, meditation...tooting, howling, screeching, booming, crashing,whistling, grinding, and trilling bolster his ego. His anxiety subsides. His inhuman voidspreads monstrously like a gray vegetation. “

In Arp on Arp: poems, essays, memories, Viking, 1972, p. 231 (https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jean_Arp)

"Silence" (1942)(https://www.pinterest.com/pin/88312842669446160/)Sculpture made of Silence “Corneille”

(1942)(http://www.gamtorino.it/opera.php?id=70)

kandinskijAs in a great circle, a serpent biting its own tail (the symbol of eternity, of somethingwithout end) the six colors appear that make up the three main antitheses. And toright and left stand the two great possibilities of silence--death and birth (see Fig. III ).

(https://books.google.it/books?id=UbdOCgAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=isbn:1785250604&hl=it&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiyieyJmeTMAhUI7BQKHS7YC30Q6AEIHTAA#v=onepage&q&f=false)

John CageThere is a person that has tried to hear absolute silence.John Cage is a musician born in Los Angles in 1912.He tried to hear absolute silence when he visited theanechoic room at Harvard Univerisity.

In the room he listened to two noises that normally we can’t hear:The noise of his heartbeatsthe noise of the blood that was flowing through his veinsAfter this experience he created his famous composition,namely 4’ 33’’

JOHN CAGE

4’33’’• 4’33’’ is a composition from the American musician John Cage• It is a attempt to hear absoute silence. Indeed it consists in 4

minutes of total silence, where nobody is allowed to produceany sounds.

• The length is not a casual length; because 4 minutes and 33seconds are in total 273 seconds.

• It is a reference to the absolute zero (0°C = 273,15 K), which isthe unreachable temperature just the way absolute silence isunreachable, too.

« They missed the point. There’s no such thing as silence. What they thought was silence, because they didn’t know how to listen, was full of accidental sounds. You could hear the wind stirring outside during the first movement. During the second, raindrops began pattering the roof, and during the third the people themselves made all kinds of interesting sounds as they talked or walked out. »« They missed the point. There’s no such thing as silence. What they thought was silence, because they didn’t know how to listen, was full of accidental sounds. You could hear the wind stirring outside during the first movement. During the second, raindrops began pattering the roof, and during the third the people themselves made all kinds of interesting sounds as they talked or walked out. »

« They missed the point. There’s no such thing assilence. What they thought was silence, becausethey didn’t know how to listen, was full ofaccidental sounds. You could hear the wind stirringoutside during the first movement. During thesecond, raindrops began pattering the roof, andduring the third the people themselves made allkinds of interesting sounds as they talked orwalked out. »

https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/4%2733%22

John Cage speaking at the first performance of 4.33 "..

(http://a4-room.com/4-33/)(https://daskunstbuch.at/2012/10/01/john-cage-4-33/)

Metal gear solid 5:the phantom pain

Quiet is a fictional sniper from the Metal Gear video gameseries created by Hideo Kojima. It is one of the maincharacters of Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain .Quiet was sent to a hospital in Dhekelia to kill Big Boss .However, after fighting a lot, the girl fell out a window . Thegirl's body , burned inside and outside, is thenreconstructed thanks to the parasitic therapy Skull Face.Quiet reappears later as a deadly and silent sniper whodecimated the Soviet soldiers until they defeat andrecovered from Snake Venom .