Paul Lovens sent an e-mail

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Subject : that and this

Dear Andrew :

While waiting on this Saturday for your Saturday report of  “Adventures in Burgen-Dream-Land”, let me supply two footnotes that were pushed to daylight when I read your wonderful idea of collecting those magic silences before the first sound is being played.

Heinrich Böll, German postwar-writer, published in the middle fifties of the last century a short story named “Doktor Murkes Gesammeltes Schweigen” ( = in English : “Doctor Murke’s Collected Silence” – although in fact it should be “silences”, but that would give too much of the plot away). A sound-engineer of a radio station, oftentimes busy with recording interviews, has to edit the tapes and cut out the silences left by the interviewed in their answers. These snippets of recorded nothing he collects, organizes them, glues them together and every once in a while he listens to them…

That’s that.

And this : The (original!) Schlippenbach Trio played at a festival in Pisa in 1981. The concert was recorded and put out on double-lp on my “Po Torch” label. (“Detto Fra Di Noi”). Audible there is what Evan mumbles just before we start the first piece : “The ritual moment of silence”…

I read your words only two houses next door to “the place” and nevertheless :

> You made me here <

Paul

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