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- Title
»Composing According to Silence«: Undecidability in Derrida and Cage's Roaratorio.
- Authors
Froneman, Willemien
- Abstract
This article addresses the ways in which Jacques Derrida's notion of undecidability resonates with John Cage's poetics of silence, especially in relation to his recorded work Roaratorio (1979). The crux of the argument is that Cage's notion of sound and silence is akin to Derrida's ideas on presence and absence and, therefore, that the ways in which sound/silence, presence/absence are manifested in Roaratorio, reveal a similar structure of undecidability. This analysis focuses mainly on issues of textuality and the implications of the recorded voice for the production of presence.
- Subjects
ROARATORIO (Theatrical production); DERRIDA, Jacques, 1930-2004; CAGE, John, 1912-1992; MUSIC &; society; ART &; society
- Publication
International Review of the Aesthetics & Sociology of Music, 2010, Vol 41, Issue 2, p293
- ISSN
0351-5796
- Publication type
Article