Stille - ausgerechnet in der Musik

Advent likes to call itself a "quiet time". However, silence is difficult to grasp, even in music.

Last winter, ten young authors attended the CAS Music Journalism course at the Research Department of the FHNW School of Music as part of a continuing education program. At the end, they wrote essays on silence, four of which we are printing in the December issue, two of them in French translation. The texts are illustrated with pictures by Kaspar Ruoff, which you can listen to.

All essays can be found here, on our website. Also in view of the international symposium Silence as musicorganized by the Hochschule für Musik and the Department of Musicology from 12 to 14 December in Basel (www.musikforschungbasel.ch).

You can access the individual essays by clicking on the respective title in the text field below.