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Being the second movement of Tabula rasa, Silentium is one of the compositions Arvo Pärt broke his long-lasting self-imposed silence with. The apparent paradox of silence being broken with silence is inherent in the concept, since in the strict sense there is no silence at all but only noise below the threshold of audibility. To this effect ...
Jun 2, 2014 · Silence for a composer is like a clean canvas for a painter or a clean white sheet of paper for a poet. Tabula rasa. On the one hand, silence is like fertile soil, which, as it were, awaits our creative act, our seed. But on the other hand, silence must be approached with a feeling of awe. And when we speak about silence, we must keep in mind ...
Content. «sounds and silence» is a musical road movie about the passionate career of a man obsessed with music. On the way through a world of sounds and noise – with Manfred Eicher, the oustanding discoverer and mediator of contemporary music and founder of the music label ECM. On this journey we are meeting musicians and composers, but ...
Moving on, there’s been so much said about silence in Arvo’s music. And apart from ways in which we might say that his music is “characterized” by silence, there are also sometimes pauses, rests, longer or shorter, that are literally unfilled with sound.
Nov 11, 2003 · Arvo Pärt’s longing for the purity of sound and his craving to draw closer to it through tintinnabulation is a lot like searching for a well in the desert. Similarly the conviction that “radiation in silence” may be attained exclusively by reduction of means and personal spiritual denial is shared by both artists.
The most comprehensive theological analysis of Pärt’s use of silence is Peter Bouteneff’s Arvo Pärt: Out of Silence. 6 Bouteneff covers several aspects of silence as it pertains to Pärt’s life and music: silence born of crisis and suffering, as absence and presence, as multivalent and productive, and as part of the Orthodox Christian tradition. 7 He discusses the inherent ...
