The Sounds of Silence - Cantos Gregorianos Modernos »
Posted By Spadecaller 7 months, 3 weeks ago in Arts & Entertainment
Here's an updated interpretation of "The Sounds of Silence," the song which catapulted the 1960s folk music duo Simon and Garfunkel into the limelight. Written by Paul Simon on February 15, 1964 in the aftermath of President John F. Kennedy's assassination (November 22, 1963).
...Performed by Cantos Gregorianos Modernos with art,visuals, and photos created and/or formatted by Spadecaller.
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Spadecaller7 months, 3 weeks ago
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Hello darkness, my old friend
I've come to talk with you again
Because a vision softly creeping
Left its seeds while I was sleeping
And the vision that was planted in my brain
Still remains
Within the sound of silence
In restless dreams I walked alone
Narrow streets of cobblestone
'Neath the halo of a street lamp
I turned my collar to the cold and damp
When my eyes were stabbed by the flash of a neon light
That split the night
And touched the sound of silence
And in the naked light I saw
Ten thousand people, maybe more
People talking without speaking
People hearing without listening
People writing songs that voices never share
And no one dared
Disturb the sound of silence
"Fools", said I, "You do not know
Silence like a cancer grows
Hear my words that I might teach you
Take my arms that I might reach you"
But my words, like silent raindrops fell
And echoed
In the wells of silence
And the people bowed and prayed
To the neon god they made
And the sign flashed out its warning
In the words that it was forming
And the sign said, "The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls
And tenement halls"
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Spadecaller7 months, 3 weeks ago
Yes, I remember when "the Graduate" first came out in the theaters. My mother saw the movie before me and came home and gave it a great review; although she was famous for getting names wrong. Dustin Hoffman was new to the scene and she came home and announced, " that Justin Kaufman was just wonderful. I remember how we laughed.
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Radiofreeeuropa7 months, 3 weeks ago
Excellent! Perfect imagery SC! And this is a tune that has such deep resonance with all of us who "are that old". I am reminded that often the boomer generation is mistaken for the greed and amoral behavior of some it's members but many if not most never did abandon the ideals embraced in the 60s and 70s. Those who did were not really part of the collective conscious which defined this generation. Paul Simon never sold out...and neither did most of his listeners who viewed him, Bob Dylan, and especially John Lennon as spokesmen.
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Spadecaller7 months, 3 weeks ago
Thanks RFE. Your description of the sell outs and the rest of us in the boomer generation describes a collective conscious that has persisted despite the trends and divisiveness that has come on the coattails of many of those who are leading the new world order.
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CHAM7 months, 2 weeks ago
Thanks Spadecaller. An excellent post. And yes there were many good groups and much promise from this era. Where have all the good people gone? Nowhere, they're here, but silent. Maybe, this.......
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kobzikov7 months, 2 weeks ago
Very nice. That was a lovely reinterpretation. I'm a big fan of Gregorian chant.
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I was also wondering about the visuals, especially the one with people in white masks and orange jumpsuits. Where is it from? -
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kobzikov7 months, 2 weeks ago
Ah. It's from the Amnesty International protest held in Paris in front of Statue of Liberty in 2007. Thanks.
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I was trying to find a photo with Statue of Liberty and protesters in the same picture, but this is the closest I've found so far
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_pictures/6253453.stm
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icono17 months, 2 weeks ago
..."People writing songs that voices never share
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And no one dared
Disturb the sound of silence"
True. This particular phrase, often ignored or just passed over, is probably one of the more depressing yet prophetic lines in the whole 'early era' of protest music.
Even the 'protest' of that era became its own 'theology' and therefore generated it's own hierarchy of important individuals and 'ideas', that eventually, by socially demeaning, ostracizing, and the inherient bias of 'social revolution', denied other individuals and segments of American Society, at the social level and sometimes at the legal level, their right to openly voice their opinion so that others could share, or debate the merits or lack there of, their ideas or convictions.
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frctm57 months, 2 weeks ago
My interpretation of this song was the sound of silence is the loneliness, anonymity and isolation that one finds in a big city like New York. The lack of connection people feel to one another when lost in a sea of humanity when the press and drive of modern life trample over the fragile humanity and sacred ideas that connect us as humans. "The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls and tenement halls" but they are not heard, not read, not acknowledged. But that is just a guess. I have no idea what the song is really about.
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cowboygrandpa7 months, 2 weeks ago
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Excellent my friend, very well done.
I just got home from work and found this. Man you don't know how nice that is. Thank You !!!
The part that says,
And the vision that was planted in my brain
Still remains
Within the sound of silence
Always reminds me of the soldiers who lost their lives, laying there silently, unable to communicate the insanity that took their future. Never more to speak on earth.
I listened to this song a lot when I came home. It still deeply moves me.
People talking without speaking
People hearing without listening
Reminds me so much of the politicians and the people who just hear what they want to hear.
Also the at about 1:57 into the video the Muslim and Christian symbols seem to be about to attack each other. So very well done.
Man I haven't lost my beliefs from then. I've just let them grow stronger in my faith.
Thanks again SC.
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