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Re: [microsound] sgnidroceR esreveR



I've listened to (and quite like) the album - but could you clarify
what you mean by "virtual non-linear"?

~David

On 9/5/06, mail@xxxxxxxxxxxx <mail@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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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