SILENCE – the unwilled sounds of the
environment, unmasked by composer's intention or performer's activity,
are at the heart of each of Cage's compositions since even before the famous
“silent” composition
4'33" of 1952. Used expressively in Nocturne
and rhythmically (if sparingly) in Six Melodies, silence becomes
the ever-present backdrop to the isolated pitches of OnelO
and phrases of Eight Whiskus, and is incorporated into the MATERIAL
of
Two6 from which the PERFORMER
fills the TIME
BRACKETS.