{"id":405,"date":"2011-03-01T20:19:47","date_gmt":"2011-03-02T01:19:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp\/?p=405"},"modified":"2011-03-01T22:40:11","modified_gmt":"2011-03-02T03:40:11","slug":"the-sound-that-fills-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/2011\/03\/the-sound-that-fills-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sound That Fills the World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the past couple of weeks, I&#8217;ve been focused on the music of John Luther Adams as I prepared for and edited together an interview presentation covering his work. Following Adams around New York City, chatting about all manner of musical topics, and observing a rehearsal for and the New York premiere of his massive percussion work, <em>Inuksuit<\/em>,  offered some immensely compelling insights into his music, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newmusicbox.org\/article.nmbx?id=6803\">the resulting profile<\/a>, published this morning on NewMusicBox, hopefully captures that experience.<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/20516294?portrait=0\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>John Luther Adams and I are sitting together on a rock in Central Park, well within earshot of the evening rush hour traffic that&#8217;s beginning to crowd Fifth Avenue. At this point, I have already spent the afternoon in his company and hours with his work, finding each experience to be a kind of lesson in listening&#8211;whether drifting inside the dream that is <em>In the White Silence<\/em>, getting aurally shocked and beaten by <em>Strange and Sacred Noise<\/em>, or simply walking along the park&#8217;s reservoir while observing him taking in the surrounding environment. Poetically, however, it is here, in a forest fenced in by honking taxi cabs, that he distills the journey of his work to date down to its fundamental revelation. &#8220;If we&#8217;re listening deeply, if we&#8217;re listening carefully, if we&#8217;re listening with our broadest awareness,&#8221; he explains, &#8220;both noise and silence lead us to the same understanding, which is that the whole world is music.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Keep reading <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newmusicbox.org\/article.nmbx?id=6803\"><strong>John Luther Adams: The Music of a True Place<\/strong><\/a>&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the past couple of weeks, I&#8217;ve been focused on the music of John Luther Adams as I prepared for and edited together an interview presentation covering his work. Following Adams around New York City, chatting about all manner of musical topics, and observing a rehearsal for and the New York premiere of his massive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":409,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-405","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uncategorized","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}