ABSTRACT
Music should not disturb the representative continuity. Should not call attention to itself/detract from the images/ remind men and women of their mortality. SILENCES are holes in the sound wall! SOUNDS are bubbles on the surface of silence. Sound like silence is both opening and filling/ concave and convex/life and death. Sound like silence may freeze or free the image. In many civilizations, definitions of music and silence are interchangeable. Music is life. But entering into LIFE is also entering into the DEATH process. A certain repulsion for silence is widely shared among filmmakers. Language is consumed exclusively as meaning, noises are reproduced mainly for their informative power, and music is tailored to fit the films action. Silences and repetitions are rejected as a failure of language when they are experienced as oblivious holes or as the utterance of the same thing twice or more.
