Appendix: Experimentations, Alternative Interpretations, and Potential New Directions

This page contains materials that are not per se part of the academic content of the dissertation. Some of them are explanatory videos by the author. Others are artworks created by students during classes which I taught. Some are artworks which have influenced me in my study of silences. Hopefully these images, videos, and audioclips may provide interesting artistic departure points for further research and thought. Hence their inclusion in this appendix.
EXPLANATORY VIDEO
Donal Fox: The Scream
KEYWORDS: silence, noise, AIDS, silencing
AUDIO: Jacques van Zyl: h__®tb__t (https://soundcloud.com/hashtag_blacknoise/h_rtb_t)
EXPLANATORY VIDEO
Alphonse Allais: Marche Funèbre
KEYWORDS: silence, parody, visualizations, humor
STUDENT WORK
Ronald Bal: untitled lutwe performance
KEYWORDS: silence, experimentation, tangibility, luwteplekken, architecture, turtles
VIDEO EXPERIMENTATION
Guy Livingston and Edgar Omar Rojas Ruiz: Respect the Rest
KEYWORDS: silence, Beethoven, performing exceptionality, embodiment
VIDEO EXPERIMENTATION
collage of online audience commentary derived from Dead Territory's performance of 4'33"
KEYWORDS: YouTube, online discussion, hereness vs. thereness
VIDEO INTERPRETATION
Cecilia Arditto: Straal
Animation: Juan de Graaf
KEYWORDS: silence, light, dichotomies
STUDENT PERFORMANCE
Mees van Driel van Wageningen: met de post vandaag
KEYWORDS: writing, language, silence, memory, loss, absence
OWN PERFORMANCE OF STUDENT WORK
Mees van Driel van Wageningen: met de post vandaag (French version)
Festival de Cluny, 2021
KEYWORDS: loss, absence, memory
VIDEO INTERPRETATION
Andrea Nicoli: No Entry No Exit
FILM: Nelleke Koop
KEYWORDS: dichotomies, on/off, not/knot
STUDENT WORK
Madalief Lammers: Sea Breath
Amsterdam, Mini-Festival of Silence, 2021
KEYWORDS: noisy silence, background/foreground, not/knot, interaction, listening
DOCUMENTARY VIDEO
Marina Abramovic: The Artist is Present
MOMA, New York
KEYWORDS: absence art, silence, media, performance art, conceptual art, interaction, the gaze, looking, listening, theater
COMPILATION VIDEO
six performers each playing 20 seconds of 4'33"
KEYWORDS: comparisons, compilation, silence, noise
EXPERIMENTATION VIDEO
co-performing/re-enacting six versions of 4'33"
KEYWORDS: re-enactment, re-rehearsing, performing body
EXAMPLE VIDEO
Schlomowitz: Popular Context
KEYWORDS: dichotomy, on/off, light, dark
SCORE
Dieter Schnebel: Umrisse I from Mo-No: Muzik zum Lesen (Music to Read, 1969)
KEYWORDS: graphic notation, experimental notation, Adorno
EXPLANATORY VIDEO
Nils Frahm & Erased Tapes: Winged Victory of the Sullen
KEYWORDS: stillness, stasis, flow, silence behind the music
EXPLANATORY VIDEO
Anton Webern: Variationen opus 27
KEYWORDS: silence, separation, connection, knot/not, structural silences, interruptive silences
PERFORMANCE VIDEO
Simeon ten Holt: Canto Ostinato
De Doelen, Rotterdam, 2017
KEYWORDS: flow, silence behind the music, stasis
AUDIO: ambient (non-) silence with seagulls - a story about John Cage (Guy Livingston)
AUDIO: experimental remix of Beethoven opus 111 fanfares (Guy Livingston)