silence /ˈsaɪləns/ 1. she escaped to the wilderness for silence: stillness, tranquility, noiselessness, peace 2. but there the gods kept silence: secretiveness, reticence, taciturnity, uncommunicativeness. 3. she was reduced to silence: speechlessness, wordlessness, dumbness, muteness.
Blythe found this article about songs of silence in reference to this post. i’m searching them out now… I’ve done a post-apocalyptic swf to use on Monday in the workshop. i’m looking for some music to make the silence… just having no noise doesn’t make a silence… Blythe currently has an exhibition of her work…
so there are different kind of silences: there’s companionable silence, when you know someone so well you don’t need to speak there’s awkward silence, gaps begging to be filled there’s reflective silence, meditative silence there’s relaxed silence, taking a breath there’s apathetic silence. whatever. there’s uncomprehending silence, bewildered into voicelessness. and then there’s the silence…
