The silences of sound

'A biologist has suggested that dolphins communicate with each other not through sound itself but through the length of the silences between individual sounds.'
That comes from Toru Takemitsu's programme note for his November Steps for biwa, shakuhachi and orchestra, which was a New York Philharmonic commission in 1967. More silences of sound here.

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