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“4’33″” (Four Minutes and Thirty-Three Seconds) and As Light As Sound

Stemming from my Typographic Jazz project, As Light As Sound is a compilation of selected works written about John Cage with accompanying artworks and graphic notations. Pocket-sized, printed and bound in-house, the book enables the philosophy of Cage to be carried everywhere, as light as sound. This format echoes the frameworks for design composition used in Typography Jazz, inspired by Cage’s experimental approach, which I carried with me throughout the entire creative process. Borrowing its title from John Cage’s seminal silent composition—where ambient environmental sounds become the music—”4’33″” (Four Minutes and Thirty-Three Seconds) accounts and contextualises the process behind Typographic Jazz. The digital illustrations are visualisations of improvisational jazz on a music score and the “white space” in the layouts acts as the ambient room noise in these compositions. Both publications exist to contextualise both my process and research surrounding Typographic Jazz and John Cage.

AS LIGHT AS SOUND
"4'33"" (Four Minutes and Thirty-Three Seconds)