Speak Nothing, Play it Back

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Read Out Loud: Select one page from - Cage, John. Lecture on Nothing (~5-10 mins), read it out loud, record it and playback. Make responses in the blog. This can be concrete or abstract. For example, it can be a painting, dancing, sculpture or writing how you feel. For the voice record, you have a choice to post it or not post it. Write a short description of why you choose this medium in response.

Here is the recording this blog will be responding to: https://www.dropbox.com/s/yj5hjjtdk8n09q3/Nothingness%20-%20A%20Relaxing%20Sound.m4a?dl=0

Listening to the recording was frustrating. I wanted to create some piece of mind-bending-art inspired by the audio. Art that captured the torture of going nowhere, of hearing so much, but really being told so little while also capturing peace and relaxation in that suspension of nowhere and nothing. I wanted to represent that balance. Well I wanted that, but it didn't happen. I did not make anything that I am proud of or care to share with the world. My endeavor to capture something from the Lecture on Nothing resulted in nothing. Big surprise. Thanks for nothing... just kidding, thank you for something: the frustration of spending time looking for something in nothing. Ok that does feel kind of poetic, after writing that I don't feel so frustrated anymore. Maybe there is something to this...or maybe I am just trying to find something meaningful inside of it all. Ok I am going to stop typing because I am not sure if what I am typing is

A) what I am truly feeling

B) what sounds like something that would be a logical takeaway

C) a random stream of thought conclusions irrelevant to the audio

The end. Looking forward to future automated audio exercises! Ok bye.