Londoner Robb Witts thinks of John Cage after the two-minute observance of silence for the victims of the recent London bombing:
Afterwards I couldn't help thinking of John Cage and his rituals of sound and silence. Cage discovered that there is no true silence, that even in the deepest quiet our human ears are filled with the background hum of our own fleshy machinery. By taking our act of remembrance into the streets, we performed a memorial of quiet, in which the presence of our fellow Londoners was audible by the absence of their sound.
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