silense

i've always been interested in silence, probably because i tend to be silent myself. lots of people interpret social silence as either shyness, arrogance or depth. from personal experience, i'd say it can be either and it can be neither, in one and the same person. sometimes i just don't have anything interesting to say, sometimes i'm just not interested.
silence as an artform often gets caged into 4:33, which is sad, because this is not about silence, it is about pause. silence is not the negative of noise, silence is part of noise, silence is a lense through which you can hear the noise more clearly. the onkyo music of all the off-site offshoots is proof of this. silence is what keeps noise together, like the intramolecular forces that keep matter together.