Noise Versus Silence: Part one

Rebecca W Morris writes about noise pollution and noise-resistance campaigns through history

Rebecca W Morris
15 min readJun 6, 2022

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Large spiky 3-D metal points lined up next to each other and facing towards the viewer. It appears to be abstract shapes but is an image of the walls of an anechoic chamber.
The walls of an anechoic chamber: By ThisIsEngineering in Unsplash

“Until I die, there will be sounds.” (John Cage)

In his lectures on Silence, John Cage speaks about the fact that there is no escaping sound. He theorises:

“There is no such…

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Rebecca W Morris
Those Who Were Dancing

Art, activism, sound and the body. Editor and Contributor to Medium publication, Those Who Were Dancing.