Contents
Translator’s preface
Homo audiens
I Two interpretations
1. ‘The Ninth’ and memory
2. 4′33″ – Nature, or ruins
3. Commentary
II Homo audiens
On Otherness in the act of composing music
III Music as a purposeless act
1. What is music?
2. Composition and its purpose
IV The freedom of interpretation
V (Coda)
Afterword
Appendix
1. The art of being ambiguous: From listening to composing
2. Each sound