The Sound Garden – silence as the first sound

The Sound Garden

1984

“Listening, the symphony of spring resounds within us,
touches us deeply and awakens us in hidden spaces, distant worlds,
set aside in some ancient region of our mind.
Awakening, it appears to us wonderful and therapeutic.
Noise pollution has reached inaudible proportions,
an uncontrollable chaos of sounds has taken place.

On the surface one gets used to it, deeper down one realises,
in the depths one perceives that the uncontrollable sonic chaos
is the effect of a sick collective mentality.
Through listening, the uncontrollable chaos resounds within us
and, expressed outwardly, it multiplies.

The individual has handed the word over to machines.
The everyday soundscape is a continuous roar.

There is no Silence – There is no music

At this point arises the need to move away toward ideal spaces and distant silences.

I propose building spaces with a conscious, unpolluted soundscape,
musical oases, a possible alternative for a musical rebirth.

Spaces completely isolated from the chaotic outside, acoustically clean and healthy.

Silence:
is the first musical element to introduce,
is the point of arrival and of departure
for building euphonic identities.

Giovanni Corvaglia