HiThanks. From the example you provided, I'm not sure you are talking about "silence", rather about breath (among other things). I sing the solo. There would be times I stop my 'breathing out' (for articulation, emphasis, effect) but I don't think of 'breathing in' as the 'silence' is micro-articulating a gesture. On other occasions I use the silence to 'breath in' with the objective of articulating a larger [higher] structure. Depending upon the degree of sophistication you are aiming for, you may wish to listen to young children from different cultures singing either folk musics, composed musics (mostly pop), or spontaneous improvisations.
Given your example, as in the Bach Sonatas and Suites, consider that another root of silence is dance, and an almost equivalent might be stopping. There is probably a difference between 'stopping' to change the direction of a movement, and stopping for gestural articulation. Search Youtube for examples of waltz, tango, rag etc.
'Silence' in music (as noted by others) may be a perceptual phenomena, and not related to having 'no acoustical event'. The Mahler First Symphony begins from 'silence', and the silence is sustained (sic) behind the acoustical events of the introduction. As a perceptual event, I consider acoustical silence an implausibility. If you wish to model silence acoustically, it looks like this 00000000000, however if you wish to model silence in a 'musical' sense, you may wish to research [what I consider to be] the first step in auditory scene analysis, segmentation.
Please keep us informed on your progress. Best Kevin
Date: Sat, 4 Jul 2009 12:11:48 -0300 From: Pablo Hernan Rodriguez Zivic <elsonidoq@xxxxxxxxx> Subject: About Silence Hello everyone! My name is Pablo. I apologize in advance of my english =D. I recently joined this mailing list because I'm doing some researchabout music. My intention is to use computational/statistical models to create music, and that models be driven by cognitive/musical claims (1).Since the very beginning of my research I had trouble modeling silence.The silence is not just another pitch which has the ability of not tosound. I think that silence has to be treated apart from pitches, but Idon't know how. So here comes my question: Do you know anything I can read to help me out with this? Thanks you all! Pablo (1) If you are interested, you can hear an example here of what I've already done: http://lafhis.dc.uba.ar/%7Epzivic/E.nar.midIn that example, the piano is of Scott Joplin, and the solo is composedby mi program.The silences that you hear, are artificial, is just a simple rule that Iintroduced, if the solo plays all the time it gets annoying