From John Cage’s silence to Brian Eno’s music; from a density of signals to a scarcity and simplicity of them. Cages silence is born out of noise; Eno’s music arises from the silence that the noise provokes around us. Cages realism brings us out of our towers, or our islands, into life. Eno’s abstraction leads us from the chaos of life to the silence of the tower, of the island. But in reality the tower is threatened; in reality, the island will be invaded. Eno clearly pushes us from the artificial territory of possible worlds into the fantastic domain of the imaginary.

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