Our idea of this project was inspired from a famous piano performance called 4'33'' which was played by John Cage in 1952. His idea came from an ancient Chinese book entitled Yi Qing. Because of that book John created the composition 4'33'', and because of his performance, I found a truth that silence is the origin of music.
In people's normal life there are always many sounds and noises around their home, work unit, and almost everywhere. How many people will spend 5 minutes to appreciate a moment of peace? Many people may think silent music has no meaning, but as a matter of fact all music was born from silence. Through our project, I wanted to take the opportunity to make people find the meaning behind silent music, and also push them to appreciate the silence and peace.
In order to achieve the purpose Jim and I made the decoration with many things. Making people appreciate our silence was the most difficult task because only those people who show enough patience during the performance can be attracted by the silence. Therefore, we created some very special and interesting topics to attract them looking forward to our performance and make them very patient during the performing process. I should say it worked and and it was very successful. I believe our performance on that day was very impressive.
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