Part 1
Soft Sounds – rattlings, hushing and drops, echoes – playful voice of a woman comes in – saying random words out loud. Somehow the sound is very pleasant although unintelligible. Start to notice the sharp contrast between vocals and consonants. Sometimes she stretches the words and they are more like noises rather than whole worlds. There’s emphasis on single letters. Some moments of no voice over – this pause feels like it is part of the sound piece, like a period of waiting. Sometimes it sounds like abstract poetry and sometimes it sounds like a story / fairytale being read to a child. At a certain point it becomes hectic and almost aggressive.
Part II – My impession is that the voice seems less playful and calmer. The general atmosphere is less hectic. Much less rattles and rustles – much less noise in general. Softer sounds – a more natural ambience.
Notes from the Cover:
“A mix of words, syllables, and letters obtained by subjecting the Journal of Henry David Thoreau to a series of I Ching chance operations.”
“What was interesting to me was making English less understandable. Because when it’s understandable, well, people control one another, and poetry disappears.”
“A transition from language to music. It’s bewildering at first, but it’s extremely pleasurable as time goes on. And that’s what I’m up to.”
John Cage in a radio interview on Empty Words, 1974
(to be continued...)
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