If anybody is sleepy, let him go to sleep …

… some notes on Lecture on Nothing – an impressionistic summary of John Cage’s brilliant text Nothing more then nothing can be said. We make our lives by what we love. Being American, having been trained to be sentimental, I fought for noises … when the war came along, I decided to use only quiet sounds….

to do nothing is very difficult,

or; there is no such thing as silence – Just as Robert Wilson, I still find John Cage‘s Lecture on Nothing to be revolutionary new, this is how it begins (click on page to get a better view): Robert Wilson on Cage: To my mind Lecture on Nothing is text as music and theater, as philosophy &…