#monotone symphony

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1960

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Monotone Symphony by  Yves Klein.

Yves Klein, on Monotone Symphony. Around 1947-48, I created a ‘monotone’ symphony whose theme is what I want my life to be. This symphony lasts for forty minutes and consists of one single, continuous, long drawn out ‘sound’; it has neither beginning nor end, which creates a dizzy feeling, a sense of aspiration, of a sensibility outside and beyond time.

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Yves Klein

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“First there is nothing, then a deep nothing, and then there is a blue depth.”

Gaston Bachelard

Monotone Symphony (1960) // single 20-minute sustained chord followed by 20-minute silence - - -- -- - p { line-height: 325%; }

"WITH THE VOID, FULL POWERS" Albert Camus

╋ inscription in Klein's 1958 exhibition guestbook