Silence in the musical scores of human phenomena

Abstract

In the search to comprehend human nature we dig into the past looking for clues to describe and interpret which way we behave the same and/or differently: the music we listen, the way we dance, the clothes we wear, the places we go, the rituals we practice, and so on. When talking about identity, the past becomes a question we must return to, being tied to its ornaments in ways we cannot acknowledge completely. But how do we gain such comprehension of the past? The deconstruction of the past has the power to give sense to our actions in present towards the future and that way, the temporal passing of signs seems to be the only way to be near to its infinite sets. Besides, the boundaries of our comprehension also belong to the way we approach temporality, and the way we remember the past. In this article I seek to develop the “sound of silence” metaphor used by Müller (2012) in order to question the ways we approach to human phenomena and the necessity to involve both the expressive quality of senses and silence through pointing out the usefulness of poetic images for pleromatization and schematization dialectics.