SilentRCA

Silence RCA

15 min of sitting in silence every Tuesday morning

9:30-9:45 in Department21

Whether you want to contemplate, meditate, think, pray, daydream,wonder or just sit we provide 15 minutes of silent space and company to do so.

“In the flow of Japanese music […..]  short fragmented connections of sounds are complete in themselves. Those different sound events are related by silences that aim at creating a harmony of events. Those pauses are left to the performer’s discretion. In this way there is a dynamic change in the sounds as they are constantly reborn in new relationships. Here the role of the performer is not to produce sound but to listen to it, to strive constantly to discover sound in silence. Listening is as real as making sound; the two are inseparable.”

Toru Takemtisu,   composer