signifier anxiety

[anechoic <kim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>Who said music wasn't a language?  Xenakis?  Kind of a strange comment
>coming from someone whose compositions could be described by statistics.  I
>suppose it's really that music *can* be used as a language, just as a
>painting can be used to describe something.  Who can't recall the specific
>lion's roar for Warner Brothers, or Intel's little ditty, or tell the
>difference in the guitar tone between Jimi Hendrix and Jimmy Page?  That's
>language.

you're confusing signifying systems with language...the two sets intersect
but do not union