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typography interference

There's no such thing as silence. Something is always happening that makes a sound. 
John Cage

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press play to silence

The emotions - love, mirth, the heroic, wonder, tranquility, fear, anger, sorrow, disgust - are in the audience. 
John Cage

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silence sound portrait

There is no such thing as an empty space or an empty time. There is always something to see, something to hear. 
In fact, try as we may to make a silence, we cannot.
John Cage

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sound react

Let sounds be themselves rather than vehicles for man-made theories or expressions of human sentiments.
John Cage

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The idea of silence inevitably refers to the total absence of sound, a cultural convention determined by the sensorial capability and auditory sense of the human being. We learn by default that silence means the antonym of sound without ever questioning its nature.

To observe this question carefully, it will be pertinent to observe how sound frequencies interact, since to understand the real meaning of silence, we must also define what sound is. From a scientific point of view, the human being decodes sound frequencies between 20 Hz and 20 kHz. In this case, it is possible to conclude that the perception of silence for a human being is all that is beyond the range of audible sound frequencies. Silence is thus interpreted as the result of physiological limitations.

With this brief analysis of the human’s auditory spectrum, it is possible to affirm that silence does not exist: the physiological condition justifies this theory to a great extent, but it does not complete it definitively, since we still have to understand what lies between the lines of this idea: if silence in its totality isn’t possible, then where did this convention came from?

This question forces us to set into perspective the notion of antonym to perceive that silence is, in fact, a synonym of sound. What the human being interprets as absence of sound is actually sound interference. In its genesis, interference consists in the overlap between several waves - a manifestation of energy displacement which can be translated into frequencies.

Silence intends, in a way, to give sound to silence. The formalization of the project subsists from the reconfiguration and production of sounds formed as the result of interference and intermittency of communication interfaces. Through audiovisual and multimedia production techniques, an object is conceived, that equates several interpretations which work as a whole, to form a representative narrative of silence as interference.

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Silence
© 2016
Flávio Bernardes 

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