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

[graham miller <grahammiller@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

aren't letters just shapes and lines, nothing more? abstract graphics on a
empty background?

one person's written language is another person's hieroglyphics...

aren't spoken words just sounds too? the sound of one word in english, say
'chow' (which infers food) means goodbye in italian and something entirely
different in chinese... same sound. different meaning...

the meaning we ascribe to them is just as learned as the meaning we ascribe
to musical sounds.

i don't see the difference. music is text. language is contextual.

maybe i still don't get you...

g.


>  But sound
> itself is just sound--nothing more.


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