Re: [microsound] being 'political' in non-verbal music

[Exegene <exegene@xxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 27 Jun 2005, aleks vasic wrote:

> On Jun 27, 2005, at 5:17 PM, Exegene wrote:
*snip*
> > stoplights convey specific agreed on information, because stoplights can't 
> > be used to convey musings on conveying musings with stoplights the use of 
> > stoplights can't be taken as language.
>
> You cant use a stop light the same way you can use and old school Morse code/ 
> telegraph?  Whats the difference between assigning meaning to letters/and 
> words and doing the same to a stop light?  You know i can use a stop light to 
> reproduce all which has been said in this thread today by assigning meaning 
> to flashes, colours and what not.
*snip*

Taking the excuse to engage in some slightly slimy post hoc wordplay, and 
acknowledging only a particular case of stoplight to facilitate brevity, 
the stoplight as it is is a device that will emit one of three impulses, 
one signifying "stop", another "go", the last "prepare to stop." Go is 
invariably followed by prepare to stop, followed by stop, followed by go. 
The only room for variability in impulses emitted is found in the time 
between the onset of each. The impulses are meaningful only to a person 
operating a vehicle within sight of and in line to pass under the 
stoplight.

Employing a stoplight as a morse code transmitter requires that it does 
not function as a stoplight because stoplight as it is cannot be 
seperated from stoplight as traffic control. A spoon and bowl 
can just as well be used to tap out morse code, although in that case they 
would still be able to function as a eating implements, but that bears in 
no way on whether or not "soup slurping" is a language.

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