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Listen Again: Sound And Silence

TED Radio Hour

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John Cage's Four 33

John cage realized that creating an environment with no distractions wasn't about creating silence. It was about the sounds that were already there, but you suddenly hear for the first time when you're really ready to listen. Our ears are incredibly special because even from like a universal aspect, light can travel from one point in the universe all the way to the other point and it's gone forever. If we curate our world, there's so many things that we can make sound better.

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