What silence can teach you about sound | Dallas Taylor

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What can you hear in silence? In this exploration of sound, host of the podcast "Twenty Thousand Hertz" Dallas Taylor tells the story of arguably the most debated musical composition in recent history -- composer John Cage's iconic piece 4'33" -- and invites you to take notice of the soundscape around you. Watch to the end to experience a performance of 4'33''.
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[@Kathling1997]

A serious eye opener for me to appreciate silence even more. Thank you, Taylor for this amazing sharing and thank you, John Cage for allowing humanity to appreciate the universe with his masterpiece.

[@ImoodyI]

Huh, its interesting how we have to be told to appreciate what is already around us. It was beautiful, thanks!

[@Piyussh]

Am living in a village where I found sounds of birds making me wake up in the morning and sounds of crickets making me fall asleep at night, peaceful vibes 😅

[@mohtasimmow9466]

Great!! Village sounds are beautiful too!!!

[@Piyussh]

@@mohtasimmow9466 you can check my channel for some peaceful vibes of my countryside 😅

[@MrQwerty2524]

Haven't heard silence in years, my tinnitus makes sure of that.

[@davidpopolizio3781]

1000% yes

[@mind-of-neo]

I am so sorry.

[@jonsey156]

Same for me - It's a bummer !!

[@rudivandereep9611]

Tinnitus yup that constant zzzzzzing...too much 5g networking

[@Starfox1357]

Yeah, same here.

[@mockingbird0901]

Haven't been actively listening to the sound of the world in a little while. Felt really good to me reminded of that. Thanks.

[@janasheenhero]

One of the most underrated Ted talk ever.

[@beingaswiftieismyjob9299]

i watched these two melodysheep videos and i thought the narrator's voice is so comforting. i read the description and i found the name Dallas Taylor. i really like your voice man

[@NgocTrinhDiary]

That was incredible for my own experience when i first enjoyed the real silence in my own garden. I've never heard such peaceful sounds of birds, chickens, winds,...everything was fascinating combined together. I appreciate for what Creater has made and helped me to realize it. I learn to adore everything little things in life and thank you for your meaningful video. ❤

[@agnerackyte8523]

Genius reminder of Mindful Here and Now.

[@TheDhammaHub]

The brain has an incredible tendency to grasp for anything really. When there is no perception, we feel deeply uncomfortable. It feels like torture to many people!

[@chiefinb1unt560]

to me it was i wanted to watch something fun else or start playing games but i stuck through it to the end

[@bigjohn8407]

I was once called crazy for saying that. It is good to know that I was right and that they were just stupid.

[@diamondunicorn2421]

Unless you have reached your hightened spiritual enlightenment.

[@HinnerkHesse]

Dude that podcast is the coolest ever I just found out

[@shruti2277]

I think sounds are most important to life

[@StartupFundingEventGlobal]

Anechoic chambers really bring out all the sounds! Amazing!

[@MsArizonaGrown]

As someone who is SO passionate about music AND philosophy, this is everything!

[@ArchieDeZ]

I'm listening to this while raining outside

[@mohtasimmow9466]

When it rains, the sounds are beautiful!!

[@CyclingM1867]

I have a fan going because of the heat, and it was interesting to actually pay attention to how its sound changes as it turns and then comes back towards me, etc.. There're a lot of trees where I live, as well as a busy highway a few metres away. Right now traffic's a bit less than usual, but it's a good exercise to try to figure out whether it's a car or truck going by. Motorcycles are obvious. Silence has rarely ever bothered me and I love it, but it's not often that I just sit and pay attention to it, unless it's early in the morning when the birds are singing the most or in the twilight and nighttime when the frogs are calling out at certain times. Thanks for sharing this with us.

[@jhauty]

It's the most soothing music I've ever heard.

[@luisgcr]

I'm grateful. It will help me a lot meditating! This experience is really important. We must reconnect with our feelings and with nature!

[@traciaustin3613]

Chill bumps all over my body from those words

[@lastadolkgGM]

Silence can be just as addicting as sound. I found that out by doing some mountain hikes and just sitting all the way up there, listening to the wind.

[@ebogar42]

Wind isn't silent so you weren't in silence. lol

[@sea2side]

Really learning and liking Dallas' podcast.

[@RajuYadav-kn9sm]

Excellent

[@kaiserbach1231]

Her cap is insanely amazing. I Want one of those

[@DawnDupponmi]

Nice to put a face to the voice!

[@stocktonnash]

20k Hz is such a good podcast!

[@neelmehta9376]

One of the best Ted Talk. Thank you for this.

[@abuhuraira3685]

A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life For it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy dare live

[@netba_art]

hey, our onlince music class is introducing us to chance music, not an in depth, but mostly an introducion and introduced john cage... and we listened to 4'33" and I loved it, I found it pretty funny at first. It was genuinely interesting. and now I'm more interested with this video.

[@RheaElise]

This made me think of Vanya (especially the chamber experience at 5:28).

[@domalessi7909]

There is no such “thing” as silence, and silence is what we are.

[@Redskirt]

I love silence. Thanks for legitimizing it.

[@50shadesofcreative]

W O W this is incredible 😱😱😱 I just realized how scattered my mind is 😱😱😱

[@unknownfacts2330]

Silence can lead to magnificent actions

[@Starr0010]

That’s good I enjoy my silence n peace✨

[@kishorkunal5917]

I heard only single sound which is I can't explain but when you will sit in pin- drop silence you will get this sound.

[@RogerWazup007]

The Sound of Silence

[@maimohamed3590]

I'm glad this was in my youtube recommendations✨🙏

[@bubblefoil]

Surprisingly, this is an interesting experience even with noise-cancelling headphones.

[@mayrinmartinezyumar5411]

Excelente!

[@MarceldeJong]

There used to be a Dutch TV program called De Wereld Draait Door (the world continues spinning or the world spins out of control) that regularly had musicians as guests and they would be asked to play about a minute or so of one of their recent tracks. It was very rarely that a full song was played. I can only think of 3 but one of then was definitely John Cage's 4"33', which I thought was hilarious. Because it was 4 minutes and 33 seconds of just ambient sounds. I still wonder how they prevented the emergency track from playing.

[@loneyasser941]

You just can't hear silence,you hear sound.

[@idaairina6978]

I guess that's one (the only one) piece of music I can play..

[@luisalbertodpaula.6116]

It is really interesting. It allows you to focus as if you were listening to music, but with no sound more than the noise of your surroundings.

[@gabrielmattos6708]

O que podemos aprender com esse vídeo é que, às vezes, devemos parar de sentir (não só a audição como foi mostrado aqui) no automático, e assim apreciar melhor as sensações e a vida, viver ao invés de sobreviver.

[@seowoo9534]

Seriously. Nowdays there are many of different sounds in the world.. we need some silence indeed...

[@heinhtet2234]

We don't have silence in city life. 🤕🤕🤕

[@Hawkenwhacker]

You missed the entire point of what he said if that's what you're thinking. In other words, just sit and listen.

[@lachiuvi8427]

Right now, i can hear the flow and the bird in the local resident in my city!

[@mohtasimmow9466]

It doesn't matter where you are just listen!!! :)

[@topgurl9313]

It's about you not actively affecting the environment and creating noise. So if you just sit somewhere in a city and let all the individual sounds wash over you, that's what he's talking about.

[@lucasnogueira8285]

Great 👏🏾👏🏾

[@StephanAC272]

Feel like listening to the silence for 18 minutes

[@croiners4166]

I'm listening to 4:33 24/7!

[@KenTheAdventurer]

Coming from an extrovert who used to be addicted to sound this was really pleasant

[@heinhtet2234]

I need silence to focus my study. 😣

[@swschilke]

With Tinnitus you never ever have a quite moment. It's is or can be even louder then anything in a quiet room. 😟

[@PrivateColt]

I suggest doing this exercise, not at home. Do it somewhere in an unfamiliar place. At home, most of the sounds are familiar and dull. In an unfamiliar place, you will able to hear more sounds than tinnitus and enjoy hearing them. Just make sure you have good wi-fi coverage to watch this video on KZbin. Yes, your brain is unique. It can ignore the sound of tinnitus or at least seriously reduce it. Also, try to hear the sound of your thoughts without active participation in your thinking, just passively observing your thoughts. I hope you will find a new experience for yourself. Enjoy!

[@yogapremagaia4984]

Take a step back and observe!

[@topgurl9313]

Everyone please share this video with those people who just don't stop talking. Get them to shut up for once

[@Roan.bot.]

Silence teaches you how unnecessarily loud the modern world is

[@antman7673]

Silence exists in a vacuum in space. But other than that I would agree.

[@zacharienelsen7973]

Artists are basically people exploring the limits of human insanity in the most beautiful way possible

[@english4children229]

What I understood « there is no such a thing called silence in our lives » , does 𝑱𝒐𝒉𝒏 𝑪𝒂𝒈𝒆 is the first one who realized that even you’re in such a silent location our blood makes a sound ? "𝑩𝒍𝒐𝒐𝒅 𝒔𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒅 "

[@fioreariadne]

In this increasingly chaotic world, we need silence more than ever. We need introspection and selflessness.

[@mohtasimmow9466]

Can I ask, Why do we need introspection and selflessness?

[@bernardofitzpatrick5403]

Novelist George Eliot wrote "“That element of tragedy which lies in the very fact of frequency, has not yet wrought itself into the coarse emotion of mankind; and perhaps our frames could hardly bear much of it. If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel’s heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence. As it is, the quickest of us walk about well wadded with stupidity.”

[@slaanesh7896]

#saveTEDrussia

[@MetaltManiac]

I’m sick in bed, I hear my stomach making weird noises, beautiful thunderstorm outside, my wife is in the other room making a snack for us In bed, the air conditioner kicks on, the dryer finishes it’s cycle, the dishwasher begins to drain, my wife walks in and asks what I’m up to, I tell her I’m experiencing a musical piece, she apologizes, I finish 4:33, she says she could’ve written that. Haha 😆 Life is beautiful, sound is beautiful.

[@Amanda-je7st]

My stomach was grumbling lol

[@Juli_B_Pilates]

Silence... that's all I want!

[@612Tiberius]

Hello darkness my old friend,...

[@estheresther3472]

I’ve come to talk with you again...

[@guineapigs4life982]

Because a vision softly creeping...

[@viraynegandotra6319]

Left it’s seed while I was sleeping

[@dallast]

And the vision that was planted in my brain

[@taylorc7174]

Still remains

[@dhiratraut9519]

sound of silence

[@justchecking5816]

Does that not contradict what it seems to say? Lol

[@Shazistic]

Life doesn’t get easier, you just get stronger. From a KZbinr ❤❤

[@jundaaaaaaaaaa]

Who else couldn’t wait and skipped forward.

[@ПолінаСавочкіна]

#savetedrussia

[@prettymuxh405]

Hear myself showering.

[@user-ro8ns9if6q]

Nice vid

[@PooNinja]

Everything is just the echo of Big Bang reverberating through time as it creates space.

[@badmanners7652]

Mate that's one of the many theories, not a evidence based fact. Why did you feel the need to leave this comment is very interesting to me, and I would genuinely appreciate if you left bias behind and asked yourself why you left this comment. I know... Do you?

[@PooNinja]

because reverb is artificial space

[@badmanners7652]

@@PooNinja I beg to differ that the core reason for you to write what you did is quite simple but also relatively ignored (hint: ego) and the way it is written can be used to reflect on the overall open mindedness you choose to inhibit.

[@PooNinja]

Mindless is my safe space

[@badmanners7652]

@@PooNinja uh.. ok?!?! I guess.. idk.. I was just trying to provoke you into looking in to yourself.

[@DollarSense570]

I lost my business due to pandemic, so I made a KZbin channel recently I have 263 subscribers. Never give up

[@VakmanCA]

This is nirvana for a few able to block their thought process at the same time.

[@mirzaangon]

I wonder how he decided on the durations of this piece

[@sandeepbjm]

So You say I can be a musician, thank you 4’ 33”

[@sebastiendion3131]

Muzak my great grandpa was one of the founders of the company look up Ben Selvin

[@rudivandereep9611]

Was watching a sattalite being launched into space few hrs ago, this time the company placed a sound recorder on the launcher...lo and behold ...on entry into outer space ...the sound of launchers engines reverberating through the steel frame NOOOO SUCH THING AS SILENCE

[@LetsBeChillx]

I don't feel this piece would be as powerful unless you are actually reading along to the sheet music while it is played

[@ノラヒューマン]

2:10

[@kalahantri]

Silence can be deafening 🕉️

[@NathanaelNewton]

Spotify would totally reject the silent song...

[@marceltech]

But that's not a piece... No one should be capable of naming silence as a piece. I bet he is not even the first one to say that.

[@Антонидас]

My PC just not let it be silence, so this experiment fails spectacularly

[@jesitacarvalho5456]

You need noise to realize the value of silence

[@justchecking5816]

Not loud noise but clear, clean sound from what it is to get the best of pure tone at it's highest level.

[@jesitacarvalho5456]

@@justchecking5816 you're right ✅ Mr.Fowler

[@NathanaelNewton]

I got bit by a mosquito during movement 2

[@rudivandereep9611]

Silence to me is when you can hear the buck walking through the forest at night

[@euclides9321]

Silence... I wish. Tinnitus: Haha ear goes eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

[@sneakydoge476]

Same

[@asirimadusanka7658]

How hard i try to stay silence my mind doesn't let me. It is so noisy.

[@JS-ue2si]

I liked him better when he was in Underoath.

[@r.a.8861]

Yo Nikko Hurtado got thin. 👍

[@SharpDesign]

Heard his own blood circulating... not sure if eww or ooh. Maybe both. Also, check out the video by "Sideways" on this subject called The Sequels of Silence

[@EverybodyLovesAnto]

Seth rogan?

[@mubaraksons5114]

I think nothing

[@AdityaMehendale]

I guess I misinterpreted the moral of "The emperor's new clothes" ;)

[@rodneybrown2364]

Agreed and well put. Perfect analogy.

[@shvartsman9174]

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[@hitzz48]

Try to explain that to a deaf guy...

[@anynomouse]

Silence ? Does that even exist ??

[@Dan_Cattell_Art]

You're about to get a copyright strike from John Cage.