Many passages caught my attention but i think this one the most ;
“Conducting experiments into abstraction’s musical equivalent, silence, John Cage discovered its ultimate impossibility. Despite eliminating all exterior sound when he entered the anechoic chamber at Harvard University, Cage discovered he could not purge the high-pitched noise of his nervous system and the swishing of his circulating blood. Experiencing duration at its purest coincides with the unavoidable sensation of the human body, a conclusion that Cage scripted in 1952 with his piece 4’33”, for which the pianist David Tutor sat before a piano with a stopwatch, while the audience waited. He played not a single note, elevating atmospheric noise to centre stage.”
the reason why i picked this because when i read it i realized how people these days including me not paying attention to our own bodies in a deeper sense. We live our lives daily knowing that our legs can walk, brains work, arms move, we listen to music like most of the time now we see people walking around in their headphones but do we ever just sit down and listen to the “melody” of our own body? I just think that it is pretty interesting that nowadays we are so involved in things around us that we don’t see what’s coming from us? I am not sure but i think it can relate to the previous paragraph where it talks about empire state building and the short called “Sleep” where Warhol tries to see himself as the machine while empire tries to show us what it’s like to “see” as a machine. I think it’s all very well connected.