Bzw. ۲ ۴ ۹ [Zwei Gedichte aus Thomas Bernhards »Unter dem Eisen des Mondes« für Gitarre und Sopran (1996), R. A. ol-Omoum]

 

[»Moon over Marmaris I«, Zaza Yurtsever (2020)]

We must allow ourselves to think, we must dare to think, even though we fail. It is in the nature of things that we always fail, because we suddenly find it impossible to order our thoughts, because the process of thinking requires us to consider every thought there is, every possible thought. Fundamentally we have always failed, like all the others, whoever they were, even the greatest minds. At some point, they suddenly failed and their system collapsed, as is proved by their writings, which we admire because they venture farthest into failure. To think is to fail, I thought. [Thomas Bernhard »Extinction« (1986)]

[»Moon over Marmaris II - V«, Zaza Yurtsever (2020)]

Everyone, he went on, speaks a language he does not understand, but which now and then is understood by others. That is enough to permit one to exist and at least to be misunderstood. [Thomas Bernhard »Gargoyles« (1967)]

[»Moon over Corinth«, Lorena Kirk-Giannoulis (2020)]

[Aus: Thomas Bernhard »Unter dem Eisen des Mondes« (1958)]

Whatever condition we are in, we must always do what we want to do, and if we want to go on a journey, then we must do so and not worry about our condition, even if it's the worst possible condition, because, if it is, we're finished anyway, whether we go on the journey or not, and it's better to die having made the journey we're been longing for than to be stifled by our longing. [Thomas Bernhard »Concrete« (1982)]

Our libraries are so to speak prisons where we've locked up our intellectual giants, naturally Kant has been put in solitary confinement, like Nietzsche, like Schopenhauer, like Pascal, like Voltaire, like Montaigne, all the real giants have been put in solitary confinement, all the others in mass confinement, but everyone for ever and ever, my friend, for all time and unto eternity, that's the truth. [Thomas Bernhard »The Loser« (1983)]

[»Moon over Marmaris VI - IX«, Zaza Yurtsever (2020)]

It would be wrong to refuse to face the fact that everything is fundamentally sick and sad. 

[Thomas Bernhard »Gargoyles« (1967)]

The study of sickness is the most poetic of the sciences.

[Thomas Bernhard »Frost« (1963)]

[»Moon over Marmaris X - XII«, Zaza Yurtsever (2020)]

In every area of life there's nothing but chaos. Wherever we turn there's chaos, in the sciences there's chaos, in politics, it's chaos, whatever we do, it's all chaotic, wherever we look, purely chaotic conditions, chaotic conditions are all we ever have to deal with. Because everything is being done precipitately, in a rush. In such a time of precipitateness and overhastiness and the consequent chaotic conditions a thinking man should never act precipitately or overhastily in anything that concerns him, but every single one of us constantly acts precipitately, overhastily, in every way. [Thomas Bernhard »Correction« (1975)]

Z. Z. XIII [Daily Sirens »1970« (2020). Inspired by Marc Wie]

 

[»Muse / Μοῦσα«, Lorena Kirk-Giannoulis (2017)]

Blüte und Untergang,

Würdigkeit und Unwürdigkeit,

edle und gemeine Gesinnung,

alles drückt sich in der Musik aus

und läßt sich nicht verbergen.

[Lü Buwei »Frühling und Herbst des Lü Buwei« (239 v. Chr)]

[»Mnemosyne / Μνημοσύνη«, Lorena Kirk-Giannoulis (2017)]

When I hear music, I fear no danger.

I am invulnerable.

I see no foe.

I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.

[Henry David Thoreau]

[»Sirene / Σειρήν«, Lorena Kirk-Giannoulis (2017)]

The highest purpose is to have no purpose at all.

This puts one in accordance with nature, in her manner of operation.

[John Cage »Silence: Lectures and Writings« (1939 - 1961)]

[»Ghosts (For Albert Ayler)«, Ras Moshe Burnett (2020)]

1970 (Daily Sirens)

#1 George Harrison „My Sweet Lord“

#2 Cilla Black „Across The Universe“

#3 Helen Merrill „The Word“

#4 Joe Pass „I Love You“

#5 Wayne Shorter „Calm“

#6 Merry Clayton „Bridge Over Troubled Water“

#7 Linda Ronstadt „Life Is Like A Mountain Railway“

#8 Elvis Presley „You Don't Have To Say You Love Me“

#9 Lou Donaldson „Everything I Do Gonna Be Funky (From Now On)“

#10 Boogaloo Joe Jones „Things Ain't What They Used To Be“

#11 Eric Kloss „Songs Of Aging Children“

#12 Radha Krishna Temple „Govinda“

#13 The Kinks „This Time Tomorrow“

#14 Areski Belkacem „Le Brouillard“

#15 Elton John „Your Song“

#16 Stevie Wonder „We Can Work It Out“

#17 Parliament „Moonshine Heather“

#18 Don "Sugarcane" Harris „Blues On The Moon“

#19 Donald Byrd „The Dude“

#20 Demon Fuzz „Disillusioned Man“

#21 Wolfgang Dauner „Brazing The High Sky Full“

#22 Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band „Bellerin' Plain“

#23 Kevin Ayers and The Whole World „Shooting At The Moon“

#24 Randy Newman „Underneath The Harlem Moon“

#25 Melanie „What Have They Done To My Song Ma“

#26 Barclay James Harvest „Taking Some Time On“

#27 John McLaughlin „Purpose Of When“

#28 McCoy Tyner „His Blessings“

#29 The Keith Tippett Group „Violence“

#30 Lonnie Smith „Twenty-Five Miles“

#31 Freddie Hubbard „Delphia“

#32 Supertramp „Surely“

#33 Cat Stevens „Katmandu“

#34 Leon Russell „Hurtsome Body“

#35 Ringo Starr „Woman of the Night“

#36 John Lennon „God“

#37 Yoko Ono „Why“

#38 Doris Troy „So Far“

#39 Billy Preston „All Things (Must) Pass“

#40 Bob Dylan „If Dogs Run Free“

#41 Dear Mr. Time „Out Of Time“

#42 Affinity „Mr. Joy“

#43 Tim Buckley „Song To The Siren“

#44 Joni Mitchell „Big Yellow Taxi“

#45 Eric Clapton „After Midnight“

#46 Mungo Jerry „Mighty Man“

#47 Mountain „To My Friend“

#48 King Crimson „Cat Food“

#49 Nico „Mütterlein“

#50 Genesis „Dusk“

#51 Gentle Giant „Funny Ways“

#52 Van Morrison „Crazy Face“

#53 Traffic „Empty Pages“

#54 Bobby Hutcherson „Ummh“

#55 Melvin Sparks „Charlie Brown“

#56 Pat Martino „Oleo“

#57 Elvin Jones „5/4 Thing“

#58 Chick Corea „Toy Room“

#59 The Dave Pike Set „But Anyway“

#60 Grady Tate „Follow The Path“

#61 Joe Farrell „Follow Your Heart“

#62 Art Ensemble of Chicago „Thème De Yoyo“

#63 Anthony Braxton „Solo“

#64 Evan Parker „Fixed Elsewhere“

#65 Horace Silver „That Healin' Feelin'“

#66 The Ahmad Jamal Trio „Dolphin Dance“

#67 Masami Kawahara & The Exotic Sounds „Poinciana“

#68 Isaac Hayes „I Just Don't Know What To Do With Myself“

#69 James Brown „Get Up (I Feel Like Being A) Sex Machine“

#70 Bob Downes Open Music „No Time Like The Present“

#71 Duke Pearson „I Don't Care Who Knows It“

#72 Canned Heat „Let's Work Together“

#73 Poco „You Better Think Twice“

#74 T. Rex „Diamond Meadows“

#75 Free „All Right Now“

#76 Pink Floyd „If“

#77 Family „Anyway“

#78 Syd Barrett „Dominoes“

#79 Rod Stewart „Jo's Lament“

#80 O. V. Wright „Ace of Spades“

#81 Ray Charles „Don't Change On Me“

#82 Ten Years After „Think About The Times“

#83 The Allman Brothers Band „Midnight Rider“

#84 Bob Marley & The Wailers „Duppy Conqueror“

#85 The Fifth Dimension „One Less Bell To Answer“

#86 Vicki Anderson „The Message From The Soul Sisters“

#87 John & Beverley Martyn „Sorry To Be So Long“

#88 Blood, Sweat & Tears „Lucretia Mac Evil“

#89 The Guess Who „Moan For You Joe“

#90 Czerwone Gitary „Wracać Do Tego“

#91 Brian Hyland „Gypsy Woman“

#92 Bread „In The Afterglow“

#93 Earl Klugh „Michelle“

#94 Howard Riley „High“

#95 John Patton „Footprints“

#96 Andrew Hill „Blue Spark“

#97 Charles Kynard „Afro-Disiac“

#98 Hank Mobley „You Gotta Hit It“

#99 The Art Van Damme Quintet „It's A Blue World“

#100 Gordon Lightfoot „If You Could Read My Mind“

#101 Kathy Smith „Blackbird And The Pearl“

#102 The Chitinous Ensemble „Aldebaranian Song“

#103 Bo Hansson „Fog On The Barrow-Downs“

#104 The Doors „Riders On The Storm“

#105 Miles Davis „Archie Moore“

#106 Focus „Black Beauty“

#107 Lol Coxhill „I Am The Walrus“

#108 Paul McCartney „Maybe I'm Amazed“

#109 Colosseum „Bring Out Your Dead“

#110 Deep Purple „Bloodsucker“

#111 Black Sabbath „Paranoid“

#112 Tony Oxley „Scintilla“

#113 Spirit „Mr. Skin“

#114 Fanny „Shade Me“

#115 Bee Gees „Lonely Days“

#116 Miroslav Vitouš „Dolores“

#117 Terumasa Hino „Make Left“

#118 Joe Zawinul „In A Silent Way“

#119 Funkadelic „Funky Dollar Bill“

#120 The Groundhogs „Strange Town“

#121 It's a Beautiful Day „The Dolphins“

#122 Santana „Hope You're Feeling Better“

#123 Ike & Tina Turner „Workin' Together“

#124 Amon Düül II „Archangel Thunderbird“

#125 The Velvet Underground „Cool It Down“

#126 Henry Mancini „Make The World Go Away“

#127 Takeshi Inomata & Sound Limited „Tak's Tune“

#128 Curtis Mayfield „(Don't Worry) If There's A Hell Below, We're All Going To Go“

#129 The Temptations „You Make Your Own Heaven And Hell Right Here On Earth“

#130 Oscar Peterson Trio „Fly Me To The Moon“

#131 Sun Ra „The Night of the Purple Moon“

#132 Brute Force „Some Kind Of Approval“

#133 Eric Burdon and War „Spill The Wine“

#134 Willie Hutch „Walking On My Love“

#135 Marvin Gaye „What's Going On“

#136 The Jaggerz „The Rapper“

#137 Else Marie Pade „Face It“

#138 Escombros „Stone Free“

#139 The Stooges „1970“

#140 Yes „Sweet Dreams“

#141 Joe Cocker „The Letter“

#142 Janis Joplin „Cry Baby“

#143 Heavy Jelly „Bio-Blues“

#144 Trapeze „Touch My Life“

#145 Peter Bardens „The Answer“

#146 Buddy Miles „Heart's Delight“

#147 Blues Image „Ride Captain Ride“

#148 Grateful Dead „Uncle John's Band“

#149 Emerson, Lake & Palmer „Lucky Man“

#150 Led Zeppelin „Hats Off To (Roy) Harper“

#151 Crabby Appleton „How Long Will It Take“

#152 Derek & The Dominos „Bell Bottom Blues“

#153 Stephen Stills „Love The One You're With“

#154 David Bowie „The Man Who Sold The World“

#155 Hungry Wolf „Waiting For The Morning Sun“

#156 Neil Young „Only Love Can Break Your Heart“

#157 Three Dog Night „Mama Told Me (Not To Come)“

#158 Paul Kantner and Jefferson Starship „A Child Is Coming“

#159 Creedence Clearwater Revival „Have You Ever Seen The Rain“

#160 Caravan „If I Could Do It All Over Again, I'd Do It All Over You“

#161 Ry Cooder „How Can A Poor Man Stand Such Times And Live?“

#162 Desmond Dekker „You Can Get It If You Really Want“

#163 Monna Bell Y Aldemaro Romero „Tres Consejos“

#164 Johnny Pate „Frustrating Disappointment“

#165 Ginger Baker's Air Force „We Free Kings“

#166 Lindisfarne „We Can Swing Together“

#167 John Denver „Take Me To Tomorrow“

#168 Wishbone Ash „Queen Of Torture“

#169 Kissing Spell „Muchacha Dorada“

#170 The Tremeloes „Now's The Time“

#171 Graham Bond „The Magician“

#172 Dory Previn „Mr. Whisper“

#173 Shirley Scott „Because“

#174 Bintangs „In The Past“

#175 Patto „Red Glow“

#176 If „Dockland“

#177 Osmosis „Sunlight“

#178 Gypsy „The Third Eye“

#179 Tom Jones „I Thank You“

#180 Frumpy „Indian Rope Man“

#181 The Moody Blues „The Balance“

#182 Don McLean „Castles In The Air“

#183 Jimmy Buffett „Captain America“

#184 McDonald and Giles „Is She Waiting?“

#185 Aunt Mary „Why Don't You Try Yourself?“

#186 Spanky Wilson „Perhaps“

#187 Ekseption „Bottle Mind“

#188 Nucleus „Striation“

#189 Dexter Gordon „The Panther“

#190 Cruciférius! „A Nice Way Of Life“

#191 Manfred Mann Chapter Three „Virginia“

#192 Fleetwood Mac „Tell Me All The Things You Do“

#193 Melba Moore „Black Enough (From Cotton Comes To Harlem)“

#194 Van der Graaf Generator „House With No Door“

#195 Steppenwolf „Forty Days And Forty Nights“

#196 Mott The Hoople „When My Mind's Gone“

#197 Humble Pie „Sucking On The Sweet Vine“

#198 Chicken Shack „Telling Your Fortune“

#199 Frank Zappa „Tell Me You Love Me“

#200 Earth And Fire „Vivid Shady Land“

#201 Mr. Albert Show „Don't Worry“

#202 Super Sister „Spiral Staircase“

#203 New Jazz Trio „Bambura“

#204 Peter Green „Burnt Foot“

#205 Jimi Hendrix „Freedom“

#206 Baby Huey „Running“

#207 Hannibal „Wet Legs“

#208 Room „Andromeda“

#209 Dada „Big Dipper“

#210 Doris „Beatmaker“

#211 Die Flippers „Maria“

#212 Peter Maffay „Catalina“

#213 Françoise Hardy „Point“

#214 Love „Ride That Vibration“

#215 Triangle „Peut-Être Demain“

#216 The Pretty Things „Parachute“

#217 Carole King „Spaceship Races“

#218 The Marmalade „Kaleidoscope“

#219 Joan Manuel Serrat „Temps De Pluja“

#220 Candido „New World In The Morning“

#221 Elis Regina „Copacabana Velha de Guerra“

#222 Nancy Wilson „Can't Get My Eyes Off You“

#223 Dr. Strangely Strange „Mary Malone Of Moscow“

#224 Jimmy Scott „Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child“

#225 The Human Beast „Brush With The Midnight Butterfly“

#226 The J. Geils Band „Serves You Right to Suffer“

#227 Pickettywitch „Please Bring Her Back Home“

#228 Count Basie „The Lady Is A Tramp“

#229 Doina Badea „Vara Nu Are Sfîrşit“

#230 Judy Collins „Time Passes Slowly“

#231 Stone The Crows „Danger Zone“

#232 Iron Butterfly „Stone Believer“

#233 Birth Control „Deep Inside“

#234 Peter Warren „Interlude“

#235 Equipe 84 „Il Re Dei Re“

#236 Kraftwerk „Megaherz“

#237 Jeremy Steig „Mint Tea“

#238 Uriah Heep „Lucy Blues“

#239 Ray Bryant „Stick With It“

#240 Egberto Gismonti „Lendas“

#241 Gary Peacock Trio „One Up“

#242 Ballin' Jack „Super Highway“

#243 Charles Lloyd „Sweet Juvenia“

#244 Hubert Laws „Flute Sonata in F“

#245 Curved Air „It Happened Today“

#246 Carolyn Franklin „Chain Reaction“

#247 Burning Plague „Follow That Road“

#248 Procol Harum „The Dead Man's Dream“

#249 Savoy Brown „Money Can't Save Your Soul“

#250 John Surman „How Many Clouds Can You See?“

#251 Grand Funk Railroad „Sin's A Good Man's Brother“

#252 Aynsley Dunbar Retaliation „Keep Your Hands Out“

#253 Gil Scott-Heron „Who'll Pay Reparations on My Soul?“

#254 Duke Ellington „Thanks For The Beautiful Land On The Delta“

#255 Albert Golowin & Friedrich Gulda „Selbstgespräch im Kasgraben“

#256 The Grodeck Whipperjenny „Evidence For The Existance Of The Unconscious“

#257 Brother Jack McDuff „Who Knows What Tomorrow's Gonna Bring?“

#258 Brotherhood of Man „Where Are You Going To My Love“

#259 Baden Powell E Paulo César Pinheiro „Lapinha“

#260 Carpenters „(They Long To Be) Close To You“

#261 Audience „Friends, Friends, Friend“

#262 Mal Waldron „Eleanor Rigby“

#263 Roberta Flack „Let It Be Me“

#264 Charles Earland „Lazybird“

#265 The Beatles „I Me Mine“

#266 Chet Baker „Something“

#267 Matt Monro „Los Dos“

#268 Máquina! „I Believe“

#269 Rita Lee „Calma“

#270 T. 2. „J.L.T.“

#271 Edwin Starr „War“

#272 Jan Garbarek „MYB“

#273 Syrinx „Journey Tree“

#274 ZZ Top „Brown Sugar“

#275 B.B. King „Hummingbird“

#276 Cochise „Velvet Mountain“

#277 Larry Willis „Someday Soon“

#278 Antônio Carlos Jobim „Brazil“

#279 Keef Hartley Band „Premonition“

#280 Richie Havens „Minstrel From Gault“

#281 Claudine Longet „Run Wild, Run Free“

#282 Rusty Bryant „The Ballad Of Open Bliss“

#283 Tom Rush „Wrong End Of The Rainbow“

#284 Brewer & Shipley „One Toke Over The Line“

#285 Allen Toussaint „From A Whisper To A Scream“

#286 String Driven Thing „Another Night In This City“

#287 Philippe Nicaud „Cuisses Nues... Bottes De Cuir (Jerk)“

#288 Labi Siffre „I Don't Know What's Happened To The Kids Today“

#289 Karin Krog & Dexter Gordon „Everybody's Somebody's Fool“

#290 Toshiaki Yokota & The Beat Generation „Orfeu Negro“

#291 Jack Nitzsche „Harry Flowers (From Performance)“

#292 The Voices Of East Harlem „Right On Be Free“

#293 Wild Butter „New York Mining Disaster 1941“

#294 Gerardo Manuel & Humo „Power Of Soul“

#295 Eugen Cicero „Memories Of Clausenburg“

#296 Rufus Thomas „Let The Good Times Roll“

#297 Thad Jones & Mel Lewis „Dedication“

#298 Jimmy McGriff „Ain't It Funky Now“

#299 Letta Mbulu „You Touched Me“

#300 The Meters „Wichita Lineman“

#301 Eugene McDaniels „Outlaw“

#302 Freda Payne „Band Of Gold“

#303 Sonny Phillips „Wakin' Up“

#304 The Jazz Crusaders „Jazz!“

#305 The Last Poets „Surprises“

#306 Ray Russell „Cradle Hill“

#307 Christie „San Bernadino“

#308 Grant Green „Dracula“

#309 Blops „Atlántico“

#310 Omega „Vészkijárat“

#311 Jade „Rest Of My Life“

#312 Dizzy Gillespie „Olinga“

#313 Alice Coltrane „Shiva-Loka“

#314 Parish Hall „How Can You Win“

#315 Nite People „Peaches En Regalia“

#316 Cathy Berberian „Surabaya Johnny“

#317 David Allan Coe „Penitentiary Blues“

#318 Leonard Cohen „Diamonds In The Mine“

#319 Houston Person „Yester-Me, Yester-You, Yesterday“

#320 Brian Davison's Every Which Way „Go Placidly“

#321 Billy Butler „Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow“

#322 The Statler Brothers „The Junkie's Prayer“

#323 C.C.S. „(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction“

#324 Beggar's Opera „Poet And Peasant“

#325 Gary Bartz Ntu Troop „Rise“

#326 Larry Coryell „Gloria's Step“

#327 Junior Parker „Taxman“

#328 Alex Brown „Have I“

#329 Pan „Tristesse“

#330 The Band „Sleeping“

#331 Guru Guru „Stone In“

#332 Dogfeet „On The Road“

#333 Aardvark „The Greencap“

#334 The Byrds „Hungry Planet“

#335 Slade „Know Who You Are“

#336 Asterix „Gone From My Life“

#337 Juicy Lucy „Willie The Pimp“

#338 Rainbow Band „Rainbow Song“

#339 Tommy James „Midnight Train“

#340 Titus Groan „It Wasn't For You“

#341 Toe Fat „Just Like All The Rest“

#342 Leon Spencer, Jr. „First Gravy“

#343 Hawkwind „Hurry On Sundown“

#344 Woody Shaw „A Deed For Dolphy“

#345 Spooky Tooth „Nobody There At All“

#346 Chris Farlowe With The Hill „Questions“

#347 Todd Rundgren „Broke Down and Busted“

#348 Creepy John Thomas „Down In The Bottom“

#349 Lee Hazlewood „What's More I Don't Need Her“

#350 Barbra Streisand „What Did I Have What I Don't Have“

#351 The Mike Nock Underground „Wax Planet“

#352 Zager & Evans „The Plastic Park“

#353 Bloodrock „Children's Heritage“

#354 Scott Walker „The War Is Over“

#355 Badfinger „No Matter What“

#356 Luiz Bonfá „Medieval“

#357 Arlo Guthrie „Percy's Song“

#358 Magna Carta „Airport Song“

#359 Laura Nyro „Christmas In My Soul“

#360 Doldinger's Motherhood „Men's Quarrel“

#361 Peggy Lee „The Long And Winding Road“

#362 Willie Nelson „Laying My Burdens Down“

#363 Dave Mason „Only You Know And I Know“

#364 Carmen McRae „Here, There And Everywhere“

#365 The Alan Skidmore Quintet „One On One Off“

#366 The Music Improvisation Company „Third Stream Boogaloo“

[»Polyhymnia (Πολύμνια)«, Lorena Kirk-Giannoulis (2017)]

Musik. — Die Musik ist nicht an und für sich so bedeutungsvoll für unser Inneres, so tief erregend, dass sie als unmittelbare Sprache des Gefühls gelten dürfte; sondern ihre uralte Verbindung mit der Poesie hat so viel Symbolik in die rhythmische Bewegung, in Stärke und Schwäche des Tones gelegt, dass wir jetzt wähnen, sie spräche direkt zum Inneren und käme aus dem Inneren. Die dramatische Musik ist erst möglich, wenn sich die Tonkunst ein ungeheures Bereich symbolischer Mittel erobert hat, durch Lied, Oper und hundertfältige Versuche der Tonmalerei. Die "absolute Musik" ist entweder Form an sich, im rohen Zustand der Musik, wo das Erklingen in Zeitmaß und verschiedener Stärke überhaupt Freude macht, oder die ohne Poesie schon zum Verständnis redende Symbolik der Formen, nachdem in langer Entwicklung beide Künste verbunden waren und endlich die musikalische Form ganz mit Begriffs- und Gefühlsfäden durchsponnen ist. Menschen, welche in der Entwicklung der Musik zurückgeblieben sind, können das selbe Tonstück rein formalistisch empfinden, wo die Fortgeschrittenen Alles symbolisch verstehen. An sich ist keine Musik tief und bedeutungsvoll, sie spricht nicht vom "Willen", vom "Dinge an sich"; das konnte der Intellekt erst in einem Zeitalter wähnen, welches den ganzen Umfang des inneren Lebens für die musikalische Symbolik erobert hatte. Der Intellekt selber hat diese Bedeutsamkeit erst in den Klang hineingelegt, wie er in die Verhältnisse von Linien und Massen bei der Architektur ebenfalls Bedeutsamkeit gelegt hat, welche aber an sich den mechanischen Gesetzen ganz fremd ist. [Friedrich Nietzsche »Menschliches, Allzumenschliches I, 4; Aph. 215« (1878)]

Artists talk a lot about freedom. So, recalling the expression "free as a bird," Morton Feldman went to a park one day and spent some time watching our feathered friends. When he came back, he said, "You know? They're not free: they're fighting over bits of food. [John Cage »Silence: Lectures and Writings« (1939 – 1961)]