Re: [microsound] sgnidroceR esreveR

[{ brad brace } <bbrace@xxxxxxxxxx>]

There is often a useful, temporal, melodic identifier in
place but it still seems incredible that every sound would
have a recognizable beginning and end -- that any sound
played backwards is instantly recognized as such. In other
words, Is there an audio equivalent of a palindrome?
Butt-roped, I deport tub.

/:b

On Tue, 5 Sep 2006, Rod Stasick wrote:
>
> 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!


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