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If a B&W photograph were a piece of music, what would it sound like?

Ed Sukach said:
Hah! John Cage's "433".
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"After Mozart, even the silence is Mozart's"...
 
For me Oscar Peterson on Verve, Vladimir Horvitz, The Beatles up to Rubber Soul.
 
It would be more like Shostakovitsch in my case.
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CODONA I with Walcott, Cerry and Vasconcelos ... or Abdullah Ibrahim's "Ishmael" from his South Africa Session ... both reduced but agil and extremly manifold


Horst
 
At times, the Overture to Zampa, By Herold.
 
Depending on what the picture shows and the contrast...

It would say anything between silence and Dead Link Removed

...and if I forget to stop down the enlarger lens and the print is fully overexposed...then it is just melancholic Type O Negative!
 
any good B&W should sound like Schönberg
 
I will come back on my previous statement that B&W is only silence; to this I will add that so-called "post-rock" music (Godspeed You! Black Emperor; Yo La Tengo, Do Make Say Think, etc) have a great B&W feel to them. Additionally, GYBE uses a lot B&W photo on their album covers/inserts.
 
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