Notas oblíquas (sob uma coleção de silêncios)

Abstract

Filaments of text, composed by spare notations stemming from the process of collecting, listing, recording, decomposing, and writing/drawing silences. From the investigation of raw and porous listening and the operation of “phonomnèse” (AUGOYARD; TORGUE, 2006), a psychic activity involving internal, silent and/or grainy listening, (listening as a “mental act”), one traverses from sonorous to acoustic silence. Silence as noise-rumor (full, opaque, white), as a waviness of sense (blanked out) and silence that traffics, spatters, oscillates (paradox sea and 100 piled silences). It is also about the localization of silences – where and in where can it occur? In the encounter or the failing of encounter between aurality, listening and sense? Between raw listening and writing, in the scratch of “swerve-word”? The essay touches on reflections that speak with Jean-Luc Nancy, Gilles Deleuze, Maurice Blanchot, Brandon LaBelle, John Cage, Georges Perec, Jean-François Augoyard, and Henry Torgue.