{"id":448,"date":"2024-05-11T13:36:04","date_gmt":"2024-05-11T11:36:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/electronicid.de\/en\/?post_type=project&#038;p=448"},"modified":"2024-05-11T14:02:45","modified_gmt":"2024-05-11T12:02:45","slug":"lecture-on-nothing","status":"publish","type":"project","link":"https:\/\/electronicid.de\/en\/project\/lecture-on-nothing\/","title":{"rendered":"Lecture On Nothing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns small-video-container\" id=\"Video\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group container project-layout-1\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns\" id=\"Bild-Text-Block\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column\"><div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/electronicid.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/JS\u00a9-00748-2560x1710.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4296\"\/><\/figure><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column\">\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Lecture on Nothing<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cHe talks for 40 minutes at a time and has nothing to say\u201d is not a cynical comment under the video of some random Youtuber, but John Cage&#8217;s self-assessment in his \u201cLecture on Nothing\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns small-image-container\" id=\"Bild\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group container project-layout-2\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns\" id=\"Bild-Text-Block\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column\">\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Silence and Nothing<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Nothing could be more healing in our overstimulated world than nothing. Silence. But to be able to perceive it, we need words as a framework. Words with which John Cage gives individual answers to questions posed by a composer at the end of the 1950s.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/electronicid.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/JS\u00a9-00760-1710x2560.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4304\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns crosslinking-container\" id=\"Crosslink-Button\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns small-image-container\" id=\"Bild\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns small-video-container\" id=\"Video\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video controls src=\"https:\/\/electronicid.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/S1.mp4\"><\/video><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns crosslinking-container\" id=\"Crosslink-Button\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group container project-layout-1\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns\" id=\"Bild-Text-Block\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/electronicid.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Bildschirmfoto-2024-04-11-um-13.36.58.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4299\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column\">\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Empty words<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Words, recited by the musicians of electronic ID and by passers-by on the banks of the Rhine, to which ChatGPT has assigned the small sections of Cage&#8217;s \u201cmicro-macrocosmic rhythmic structure\u201d in random order. Words that go round in circles, undermining their own message and thus leading to nothing.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns crosslinking-container\" id=\"Crosslink-Button\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group container project-layout-3\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns\" id=\"Bild-Text-Block\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column\">\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Nothing in Social Media<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>John Cage&#8217;s Lecture on Nothing was written in a time without the internet and social media. Nevertheless, it reads surprisingly critically with regard to modern media. We invite you to watch the production prepared for Instagram:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/lecture_on_nothing?igsh=MTZjYzVtc3RrdDRseg%3D%3D&amp;utm_source=qr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">To Instagram<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/electronicid.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/WhatsApp-Bild-2024-04-12-um-16.21.52_6c2e6fea.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4331\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns small-image-container\" id=\"Bild\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column\"><div class=\"wp-block-image small-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/electronicid.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Bildschirmfoto-2024-04-11-um-13.36.17.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4300\"\/><\/figure><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns small-image-container\" id=\"Bild\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column\"><div class=\"wp-block-image small-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/electronicid.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/JS\u00a9-00752-1710x2560.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4305\"\/><\/figure><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns small-image-container\" id=\"Bild\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column\"><div class=\"wp-block-image small-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/electronicid.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/JS\u00a9-00738-1-1710x2560.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4295\"\/><\/figure><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns small-image-container\" id=\"Bild\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column\"><div class=\"wp-block-image small-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/electronicid.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/JS\u00a9-00749-2560x1710.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4303\"\/><\/figure><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":452,"template":"","metatopic":[15,16,23],"location":[21],"performance":[7],"class_list":["post-448","project","type-project","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","metatopic-consciousness","metatopic-media-criticism","metatopic-postdigital","location-cologne","performance-online"],"acf":{"editable_in_the_ai_synthesizer":false,"project_location":"electronic ID @ Lecture on Nothing","project_author":"by Raik Weidemann","project_video":450,"project_image":"","project_teaser_video":462,"project_teaser_image":"","project_title_color":"#ffff00","project_description":"John Cage's Lecture on Nothing in an interpretation for video, ensemble members and people passing by.","project_text":"Our project \u201cLecture on Nothing\u201d is an artistic exploration of the concepts of silence and nothingness, inspired by John Cage's work of the same name. 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