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Monotone-silence Symphony

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Editorial, 1959, Yves Klein

"Silence … This is really my symphony", excerpts from writings

"During this period of concentration, I created, around 1947–1948, a monotone symphony whose theme expresses what I wished my life to be. This symphony of forty minutes duration (although that is of no importance, as one will see) consisted of one unique continuous sound, drawn out and deprived of its beginning and of its end, creating a feeling of vertigo and of aspiration outside of time. Thus even in its presence, this symphony does not exist. It exists outside of the phenomenology of time...
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Editorial, 2007, Éliane Radigue

"The Monotone-Silence Symphony", by Éliane Radigue

E.R. - (1954) And that year, Yves returned with a passion for glossolalia. He had discovered glossolalia, the famous universal language spoken by the apostles when they received the Holy Spirit at Pentecost. It is said that when they received the Holy Spirit, they began to speak, as if drunk, an inarticulate language through which they understood each other perfectly. So that's what Yves brought that year. Of course, he always went into the subject in greater depth each time, and we weren't...
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