Thinking Music as Divine Gift

dc.contributor.authorLiu, Gerald
dc.date.accessioned2021-12-07T22:46:45Z
dc.date.available2021-12-07T22:46:45Z
dc.date.issued2021en
dc.description.abstractWhen we ask the question of what it could mean to think music, an elementary and perhaps astounding fact about silence may help us imagine the possibilities. There is no such thing as absolute silence. ‘No such thing?’ Yes, even “The World’s Quietest Place,” a -20.6 dBA anechoic chamber so named and designed by Microsoft is not in fact a place “where sound goes to die.”1 Rather, sound recedes far below human perception there, and technically into a special foundation made of state-of-the-art springs. But sounds most definitely continue to reverberate in the world’s quietest place and just about every other place in fact. Absolute silence requires a vacuum, a realm devoid of life. Wherever life is, sound is.
dc.identifier.issn2463-333X
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10092/103103
dc.identifier.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.26021/12237
dc.publisherUniversity of Canterburyen
dc.rightsThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.en
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/en
dc.titleThinking Music as Divine Giften
dc.typeJournal Article
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