Listen to Autechre's (not them again!) album "untilted"
There are rythms there that can be easily labeled as "virtual non-
linear"
I have been exploring extra-ordinary rythmical possibilities for some
years now, and can assure that this is one of the best examples
that can
be found of rythmical paradoxes.
On 2006 Sep 05, at 11:00 AM, Kyle Klipowicz wrote:
I doubt that there are any such cultures.
Sure, the ordering of actions, objects, subjects, etc can be
"reversed" in some languages, but all are limited by the fact
that the
voice can only make one layer of sound at a time (unless it's a
Mongolian throat singer).
Sound communication of ideas doesn't have to be done just vocally.
One could imagine an indigenous culture where a vocal utterance
occurring simultaneously with a shuffle of feet in a pile of leaves
would mean something different than the same vocal utterance
with a stomping of feet on dry ground. The two sounds being
inseparably
intertwined.
It's also harder to process multiple lines of audio at once: try
listening to two people saying completely different things at once,
it's like an audible Necker Cube
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Necker_cube). So since we cannot
layer
the meaning encoded within language "harmonically," it must be
communicated "melodically" or in temporal sequence.
We have "harmolodics" and what a wonderful sound it is!
Rod
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