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This image is a representation of sound waves. The

This image is a representation of sound waves.
The sound waves were the representation of the noise my fingers made whilst typing out a composition on the nature of love.
This image was produced during The Silent Academy - Synchronized Stillness 05.23.20.
This kind of activity (and other ideas) will be shared in The Silent Academy newsletter, which you can sign up for, via the link in the bio.
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WHAT HAPPENED: 05.23.20 – THE SILENT ACADEMY - S

WHAT HAPPENED: 05.23.20 – THE SILENT ACADEMY - SYNCHRONIZED STILLNESS
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At 12 noon PST on Saturday May 23 2020, 397 people from 5 continents participated in The Silent Academy – Synchronized Stillness.
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The event started when everyone, apart but together, pressed ‘play’ on a piece of music called ‘Location 2’ by a band called Colourmusic. The piece was extracted from the sequence, Mathewson, OK. – a concept album about a place that is no longer real.
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Colors from the album-cover informed The Silent Academy’s Instagram feed in the days leading up to the event.
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When the music stopped, all participants received a prompt. The prompt read ‘Sometimes it is not impossible’.
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Apart but together we worked on our responses to the prompt. Sixty minutes later a large percentage of participants submitted their work to the Silent Academy archive. Some people wrote to express thanks. Some people didn’t submit work but still, in some way, were present. All responses released dopamine.
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Everyone who took part in the event received a certificate of participation, which they were encouraged to burn. If you took part in the Synchronized Stillness and are not yet in possession of a small amount of ash you only have yourself to blame.
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Link in bio to more details…
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With thanks to all the participants..... During th

With thanks to all the participants..... During the Silent Academy Synchronized Stillness I thought about love.
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I thought of the impossibility of definition. •
These three pictures are the traces of a sequence of ideas. •
I composed three phrases, each attempting to communicate love, passion, and compassion.
I recorded the sound of my fingers typing out the words.
I processed the audio of my fingers tapping on the keyboard.
I photographed the visual representation of the audio recording.
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Today this is my most accurate expression of love, passion, and compassion. •
AJS
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Special thanks to @colourmusic who leant color and music to my week. Please send them money and nice things.

#thesilentacademy #synchronizedstillness #words #process #silence #noise #recording #fingertips #definition #audiblesilence #conceptualism
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THE SILENT ACADEMY SYNCHRONIZED STILLNESS *registr

THE SILENT ACADEMY
SYNCHRONIZED STILLNESS
*registration link in bio*
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Join people from five continents, already signed up for a thing that is happening.
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On Saturday May 23 at 12 noon PST The Silent Academy will host a Synchronized Stillness.
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When you sign up you will be sent a link and password to an online clock, and a stream of music. •
People from five continents will simultaneously press ‘play’ on the music. •
Together, but apart, we listen to the music.
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When the music stops (after about 35 minutes) everyone who registered for the event will receive prompt, via email.
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We then take sixty minutes to respond creatively to the prompt in any medium, or mode of expression. •
The Silent Academy encourages intuitive, non-literal responses.
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Responses are invited to be submitted to the private email address, provided at registration. •
We hope you can make it. We’d love to see you. Tell your mates.
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See you Saturday.
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SMALL PRINT - (answers to questions received via direct message)
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‘No’ you don’t need to be ‘an artist’. If you are ‘an artist’ we encourage you to try a new medium or mode of expression.
This is not a competition, please don’t try to make it one.
There are no prizes. (Connection with others is its own reward.)
This is a free event. Though if you’d like to donate something - give your time to a local charity whose values reflect your own.
This is not a spiritual event, any more than blowing your nose, singing in the shower, describing love to the sky, or lining your shoes up outside a temple.
The Silent Academy doesn’t have a newsletter. We’ll work on that - but you’ll need to sign up separately - you can do that via the ‘communications page’ at www.silentacademy.com
48 hours after the Synchronized Stillness The Silent Academy will wipe the database of all registered emails. (Because privacy is held in high regard)
You’ll never receive any unsolicited emails from The Silent Academy. •
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#thesilentacademy #synchronizedstillness #colourmusic #makestuff

THE SILENT ACADEMY *SYNCHRONIZED STILLNESS *regist

THE SILENT ACADEMY
*SYNCHRONIZED STILLNESS
*registration link in bio*
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On Saturday May 23 at 12 noon PST The Silent Academy will host a Synchronized Stillness.
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People from all around the world sign up for access to a private stream of ambient music. •
People from all around the world press ‘play’ on the music at the coordinated time.
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We sit, or lie, or slouch - and we listen to the music.
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When the music stops (after about 35 minutes) everyone who registered for the event will receive prompt, via email.
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We then take sixty minutes to respond creatively to the prompt in any medium, or mode of expression. •
The Silent Academy encourages intuitive, non-literal responses.
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Responses are invited to be submitted to the private email address, provided at registration. •
We hope you can make it. We’d love to see you. Tell your mates.
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See you Saturday.
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#thesilentacademy #synchronizedstillness #colourmusic #makestuff •
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SMALL PRINT - (answers to questions received via email)
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‘No’ you don’t need to be ‘an artist’. This is not a competition
There are no prizes. (Invisible connection is quite rewarding though)
This is a free event.
This is not a spiritual event, any more than doodling in a pad, peeling a potato, attending a rock show, visiting a gallery, sitting on the floor, or looking at the ceiling of a cathedral.
The Silent Academy doesn’t have a newsletter. We’ll work on that - but you’ll need to sign up separately -
48 hours after the Synchronized Stillness The Silent Academy will wipe the database of all registered emails. (Because privacy is held in high regard)
You’ll never receive any unsolicited emails from The Silent Academy.

THE SILENT ACADEMY - SYNCHRONIZED STILLNESS. (Regi

THE SILENT ACADEMY - SYNCHRONIZED STILLNESS.
(Registration Link in Bio)
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On Saturday May 23 at 12 noon PST The Silent Academy will host a Synchronized Stillness.
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What is a Synchronized Stillness? If you took part in the Silent Academy ’Synchronized Walking’ this is a lot like that, but altered to accommodate the world on lock down, as it is.
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People from all around the world sign up for access to a private stream of ambient music. •
People from all around the world press ‘play’ on the music at the coordinated time.
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We sit, or lie, or slouch - and we listen to the music.
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When the music stops (after about 35 minutes) everyone who registered for the event will receive prompt, via email.
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We then take sixty minutes to respond creatively to the prompt in any medium, or mode of expression. •
Responses are invited to be submitted to the private email address, provided at registration. •
We hope you can make it. We’d love to see you. •
See you Saturday.
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#thesilentacademy #synchronizedstillness #colourmusic #makestuff

UPDATE: The Silent Academy - Synchronized Stillnes

UPDATE:
The Silent Academy - Synchronized Stillness •
Due to a significant technical glitch all registered emails have been lost.
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If you registered your email to take part in this Saturdays Synchronized Stillness we humbly request that you once again fill out the form - linked in bio at the top of this page, or onsite at www.silentacademy.com
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EVENT DETAILS:
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On Saturday May 23 at 12 noon PST all registered participants will be sent a private link to a 30 minute stream of music. •
All around the world we will join together, apart, to listen to the streaming music.
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At the end of the music all registered participants will be emailed a prompt, designed to inspire creative response. •
Responses can be in any medium or mode of expression. •
Responses are invited to be submitted to the private email address, provided at registration. •
We hope you can make it. We’d love to see you invite a friend.
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Apologies for the technical error. Life can be beautiful, and it is often chaotic. •
See you Saturday.
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#thesilentacademy #synchronizedstillness #colourmusic

A THING THAT IS HAPPENING: • THE SILENT ACADEMY

A THING THAT IS HAPPENING:
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THE SILENT ACADEMY SYNCHRONIZED STILLNESS
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On Saturday May 23 2020 at 12 noon. PST The Silent Academy will host a Synchronized Stillness. Check corresponding local times here on the world clock
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The event will work like this –
Register your interest in participating in the Synchronized Stillness by signing up via the registration form (link in bio)
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Registration will close at midnight PST on May 22 2020
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30 minutes before the Synchronized Stillness we will send a link to your registered email address. •
This link will provide you with a music stream.
The music stream is free. The music is made by Colourmusic.
Colourmusic is a band known for loud music.
The music you will receive will not be loud. The music you receive will be quiet, ambient music.
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At the declared time all registered participants will listen to the downloaded music however they see fit. Headphones, loud speakers, etc.
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Together, but far apart we will sit or lie down – and be still.
We will listen to the music, allow our minds to wander, and be joined together in doing so.
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At the end of the music – which is approximately thirty minutes in duration – The Silent Academy will send a prompt to your registered email address.
You will have sixty minutes to respond to the prompt.
You are invited to submit your response to the prompt to contact@silentacademy.com
You are not required to respond to the prompt, but it would be nice if you did. •
Your response will be kept in an archive.
The Silent Academy may share your response across digital platforms. However, this will not be done without your written consent. •
IMPORTANT SMALL PRINT:
The Silent Academy will not store, circulate, or sell your email address.
Our database of all names and contact details will be wiped.
This is not an exercise in competitive creation. Do not worry. Go easy on yourself.
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#thesilentacademy #synchronizedstillness #colourmusic

This is a place where questions gather. • • Th

This is a place where questions gather.
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The book ‘questions’ contains a foreword by Bill Drummond. Bill Drummond doesn’t like questions, but he thinks this book is beautiful because these questions have never been asked before.
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Imagine that. •
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#questions #conceptualism #independentpress #book #puddle #squareinchcathedral #pebble #thesilentacademy #surrealism #creativevandalism #billdrummond #penkilnburn #klf

how many butterflies swarm at the invisible truth

how many butterflies swarm at the invisible truth
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What does this have to do with the book called ‘questions’?
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#questions #mirror #sky #conceptualism #independentpress #book #greysky #clouds #squareinchcathedral #pebble #thesilentacademy with a foreword by #billdrummond #penkilnburn #klf

these questions do not desire answers. these quest

these questions do not desire answers. these questions seek to suspend your mind in free-fall.
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THE MOST IMPORTANT QUESTION: • Does it help to s

THE MOST IMPORTANT QUESTION:
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Does it help to stare at the center of a question?
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Tag @thesilentacademy. Correct or closest or most creative response will receive a copy of the book ‘questions’. •
Deadline - Friday April 24 2020.
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Judges decision is final!
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#marketingdrive #sky #reflection #questions #booklaunch
#thesilentacademy #surrealism #independentpress #chalk #disrupthabitualthinking

Two people were arguing about a basketball net, mo

Two people were arguing about a basketball net, moving in the wind. “It’s the wind really moving,” stated the first person. “No, it’s the net that is moving,” contended the second. Overhearing this conversation you have to ask yourself - “What does this have to do with the Silent Academy book ‘questions’.”
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Link in bio.
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#questions #booklaunch #basketballnet #indiepress #koan #smallpress #surrealism #poetry #bluesky

THE MOST IMPORTANT QUESTION: • how many jelly be

THE MOST IMPORTANT QUESTION:
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how many jelly beans are in this piece of sky?
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Upload creative response. Tag @thesilentacademy. Correct or closest or most creative response will receive a copy of the book ‘questions’. •
Deadline - Friday April 24 2020.
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Judges decision is final!
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Imagine that. •
#jellybeans #marketingdrive #sky #reflection #questions #booklaunch #surrealism #nicebeachaction #indiepress #mostimportantquestionatanyparty #thesilentacademy

what is not an idea that is not now…. • From t

what is not an idea that is not now….
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From the Silent Academy book ‘questions’, which will be released on Friday April 17 2020. •
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“…a book that only contains questions that hav

“…a book that only contains questions that have never been asked before. Questions that fire the imagination with their beauty…” - From Bill Drummond’s foreword for the book ‘questions’. •
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‘questions’ book launch - april 17 2020.
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preorders now available online - link in bio.
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#thesilentcademy #billdrummond #tenzingscottbrown #penkilnburn #questions #booklaunch #alleyway #creativevandalism #surrealism #smallpress #artpress #book #magicrealism #porttownsend #dreamsequence

…these questions do not seek answers.
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‘questions’ book launch - april 17 2020.
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preorders now available online - link in bio.
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#thesilentcademy #questions #booklaunch #steps #creativevandalism #porttownsend #surrealism #koans #smallpress #artpress #earlymorning #book #magicrealism

proof of a pine cone dreaming • Sometimes in pan

proof of a pine cone dreaming
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Sometimes in panic we forget details that underpin our connections. We become adrift. Everything feels remote. •
In this time The Silent Academy has set off to reassert connection and to express non-grasping love. •
This journey will be aided by the production of a sequence of apparently unrelated scenes, which will be expressed in the form of road signs. •
Each road sign points to a single link in a chain of circumstances that occurs across a variety of times and places in the universe. •
Far from random, these scenes are a guide of dependently arising events, a web of jewels, designed to guide the mind back to itself, and way from fear. If even for a moment.
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These near invisible signs measure 8 inches by 8 inches. They are written in white letters on Silent Academy Grey (#d5d5d5)
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These signs will be hung in public places; streets, skateparks, bus stops. That kind of thing.
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A free download of this tex art poster is available from the Silent Academy online store. •
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#thesilentacademy. #pier #micropoetry #minimalism #surrealism #creativevandalism #streetart

…these questions do not seek answers, these ques

…these questions do not seek answers, these questions want to suspend your mind in free-fall. •
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‘questions’ book launch - april 17 2020.
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preorders now available online - link in bio.
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#thesilentcademy #questions #booklaunch #hammer #pier #creativevandalism #porttownsend #sky #salishsea #surrealism #koan #smallpress #art #mist

Here is a picture of Bill Drummond. Bill Drummond

Here is a picture of Bill Drummond.

Bill Drummond is an artist. In this picture he is standing in a field of Borage.
He’s grasping a paint brush in one hand.
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Bill Drummond refuses to give interviews, nor will he directly respond to questions.
It is exactly because of this stance and his reluctance to offer explanations on art that Bill Drummond was invited to author the foreword of the upcoming Silent Academy book, ‘questions’.
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Bill’s alter-ego, Tenzing Scott Brown wrote a forty-second play called ‘QUESTIONS QUESTIONS QUESTIONS’. The play features Bill Drummond, drinking tea and being interviewed about the nature of questions.
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Bill Drummond, as portrayed by Tenzing Scott Brown, says that the book ‘questions’ “…fire(s) the imagination with beauty…”
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Let’s look at that cloud just above Bill’s head. What can it all mean?
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‘questions’ will be released by The Silent Academy on April 17 2020.
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Preorders now available. •
Photograph of Bill Drummond - by Tracey Moberly. •
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#thesilentacademy #questions #book #booklaunch #billdrummond #klf #penkilnburn #tenzingscottbrown #art #cloud #borage #poetry #smallpress #indiepublisher #conceptualart #surrealism

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