How the Silence Makes the Music (Published 2019)
A brief, incomplete, very quiet guide to the history of music’s negative spaces. One of the most arresting objects on display in the musical instruments galleries of the Metropolitan Museum of Art is a 2,000-year-old bell from Japan that was built to be mute. Dotaku bells such as this one still …
Paula Tait flipped this story into Song, Sound & Music•1660d