“The last room of the ‘Anarchy of Silence’ exhibition is taken up with a 2007 realization of ‘Lecture on the Weather,’ with John Ashbery, Jasper Johns, and Merce Cunningham among the reciters. I sat for a long time in the gallery, listening to the grim swirl of sound and observing the reactions of visitors. Some poked their heads into the room, shrugged, and moved on. Others seemed transfixed. One young couple sat for a while in the opposite corner, their hands clenched together, their heads bent toward the floor. They looked like the last people on earth.”
[ROSS, Alex: “Searching for Silence. John Cage’s Art of Noise”, The New York Times, October 4, 2010]
cosmic lithium :) 