TACET was the first phase of research for the inquiry Infinite Ear and it involved field trips and workshops, a public event and the publication of essays in this website.

In 1952, John Cage designed a performance which staged a musician sitting at a piano for 4 minutes and 33 seconds without moving. As he explained, the performance is anything but silent: it is an invitation to the audience to attend to the thousands of ordinary sounds covered by music yet present nonetheless — the sound of coughing, of creaking seats, snippets of conversations of passers-by, the distant humming of the subway…TACET was the main score indication. We would like to interpret TACET as an invitation to expand our listening awareness and ability.

The online publication includes the story of the research, a conversation between drummers and Al Amal students, an analysis of his workshop by Jeffrey Mansfield and a definition of Noise by Inigo Wilkins. The poster below is a visualisation of the composition of knowledge in the process: