Re: [microsound] sgnidroceR esreveR

[Rod Stasick <rod@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

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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