Interruption

In the act of communicating with each other there is a rhythm. A cadence is perceived between sound and silence and I always give more interest to the second, that apparent emptiness of words which make dialogues seem suspicious and which raises us to a parallel pace of thoughts and emotions. Mr. Juarroz, resident in the 'Neighbourhood' written by Gonçalo M. Tavares, among its numerous thoughts concluded that "… there is an interval between a thing and another in the world. But it is also possible to have a single thing between two intervals. And if so the intervals become the main and concrete thing, with volume and space, it becomes the interval itself (interruption). " Aproaching these 'interruptions' in an imagery way became the biggest challenge of this project. It was my premise to make this lapse in dialogue, perceptible to the eye, so I limited my range of observation to communication between a couple and named this project 'interruption'. In search of this emptiness, my attention caught up with the composer and musical theorist John Cage who refers that acoustic silence doesn't exist. He demonstrates it with a description of his visit to an anechoic chamber “I entered one (anechoic chambre) at Harvard University several years ago and heard two sounds, one high and one low. When I described them to the engineer in charge, he informed me that the high one was my nervous system in operation, the low one my blood in circulation.” This experience in the anechoic chamber and Rauschenberg whiteboards, according to the composer, led him to compose 4'33'' in 1952. In this piece of music, the musicians do not play any instruments at the time specified in the title, remaining standing in front of their instrument. The content of this composition is not 4 minutes and 33 seconds of silence, as one might suppose, but the ambient sounds heard during the public hearing. This idea that led John Cage create the musical piece 4'33'' became the guide of my photo essay.