Sounds and Silence Page #2

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like a picture puzzle.

We had that several times...

It was in 2006, the war in Lebanon.

That was a shock.

I couldn't just go

into my music room any more,

to work on my music alone,

as if nothing had happened.

I couldn't go on like that.

I wanted to go into Lebanon with a camera,

and document conversations

with intellectuals, artists and friends.

And then I got the idea of making a film.

Lebanon is the most democratic country

in the Arab world.

There has been great freedom of speech

for a long time.

But they are hitting at it.

Other Arab governments

which are regarded as moderate,

are despotic regimes.

This whole business is a great mix-up.

It is as if words have lost their meaning.

Some people's "terrorists"

are other people's "freedom fighters".

I do not believe in sound as such,

as part of a work of art,

but as a life story.

A story that appears through sound,

and through it, as through

a communication cable...

finds its way to its recipient,

the listener.

For me treasures...

are contained in this sound,

the barking of dogs,

the singing of birds,

simple things.

Which money can't buy.

With which soldiers do you wish

to purchase the crowing of a cock,

or the barking of a dog?

Lovely...

I'd only like...

Look there... perhaps a little less here...

The fact is... this culmination cannot

be obtained like this, you see,

that is the essence,

we must work on that.

You have changed it beautifully here

and you must do it here, too.

There it is too heavy.

Bar 18, in the last quarter.

What is the last word there.

Bar 18.

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Originally published 03/11/2013

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