Migone looks at French playwright and poet Antonin Artaud's writings,
with their implications of strangled speech and
glossolalia; American composer Alvin Lucier's groundbreaking 1969 recording «I Am Sitting in a Room»; Erik Satie's looped composition «Vexations»; Marina Abramovic's confrontational performance «Rhythm 0»; Adrian Piper's «Untitled Performance for Max's Kansas City»; Herman Melville's short story «Bartleby, the Scrivener»; Bob Connolly and Robin Anderson's documentary film First Contact; and of course the work that most looms over this topic: John Cage's paradigm - shifting 1952 composition «4» 33».»