Re: [microsound] sgnidroceR esreveR

[Kevin McCoy <km.takewithyou@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Erik,

I heard a presentation once about an aboriginal culture in Australia that
told cultural stories and formed memories that were somehow understood to be
simultaneously past and present... can't remember much more than that, but
the person presenting was thinking of what model to use for a network to
allow these people to present their experiences in media.

Kevin

On 9/5/06, erik schoster <ejschoster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> I'd be really interested to know if there are cultures that don't
> perceive sound as directional - I'd say it is for the same reason we
> perceive time as directional though.  We understand events to happen
> one after the other, linearly, and because of that we probably model
> our writing and music against them.  It would be really interesting to
> know though if there is a culture out there that has a kind of
> rhizomatic perception of time - events branching off from each other
> in a mess of lines, maybe even feeding back onto itself...  I can't
> imagine there are such cultures, but I bet their languages would look
> cool!  (Maybe to us something like paul's message...)
>
> Erik
>
> On 9/5/06, { brad brace } <bbrace@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > ?serutluc lla rof eurt siht sI ?raenil ?lanoitcerid eb ot
> > deviecrep )egaugnal dna( sdnuos era yhW
> >
> > /:b
> >
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