Empty Sound

opening the ears to thought

empty sound

There is an old Asian riddle from Mokurai to his student Toyo. “What is the sound of one hand clapping?” As the riddle continues Toyo wonders if the sound of one hand clapping is a drip of water, the sigh of the wind, the cry of an owl or melody of music. Evolving music in the American idiom. The Empty Sound include some "traditional melodic" elements in a  ...