---
title: Something
subtitle: 'about all music being performances of _4′33″_ in places where other bands happen to be playing'
genre: verse

id: music-433
toc: "Something about all music being performances of _4′33″_ in places where other bands happen to be playing"

dedication: '[Randall](https://xkcd.com/1199/)'

project:
    title: Stark Raving
    class: stark
    order: 18
    next:
    - title: Riptide of memory
      link: riptide_memory
    - title: About the author
      link: about-the-author
    prev:
    - title: The Moon is drowning
      link: moon-drowning
    - title: The Sixteenth Chapel
      link: sixteenth-chapel
...

| Silence lies underneath us all in the same way
| [the Nile has a river underneath ten times as large][nile]
| (although this is an urban legend, apparently).

| So underneath [truth][] or legend, flowing by
| the feel of their own [silence][], move the stars:
| silence lies underneath us all in the same way.

| [John Cage][433], I think, understood this: the way
| that, in a silent room, one still hears the nerves
| (although this is an urban legend, apparently),

| or the heart, which I find more easily
| believable: there simply is no way that, by and large,
| silence lies underneath us all in the same way.

| There must be different silences, because we
| have different [songs][] to drown them out, different gods
| (although these are urban legends, apparently).

| But is not all [sound one sound][]?  You and I
| are two faces to the same head, the same body.
| Silence lies underneath us all in the same way---
| although this is an urban legend, apparently.

[433]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=zY7UK-6aaNA#t=39
[truth]: phone.html
[silence]: nothing-is-ever-over.html
[songs]: swansong.html
[sound one sound]: swansong-alt.html
[nile]: http://members.authorsguild.net/svobodni/resonance_80307.htm "Personals"