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Medieval Jewish Philosophy / Avant-garde Music TheoryMoses Maimonides (with John Cage)

There's a strange overlap between two things that shouldn't be related: the philosophy of divine absence and the experience of musical silence. John Cage famously argued that...

When you notice a gap — in a piece of music, in someone's answer, in your own sense of meaning — do you rush to fill...

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