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Cells, Cells, Cells
Linda Hogan. Three lines from somewhere in mid-poem. “We Will Feed You” collected in Rounding the Human Corners. as we journey, myself a cell of someone’s body, seeing it through their eyes, It is, I believe, the influence of the … Continue reading
Hum Along
Speaking to oneself is cured by singing As if the sad soul were stammering … Found in a notebook entry dated October 16, 2004, an entry on interior monologue (its displacement by “vocalization of a mesmerizing tune”). And a year … Continue reading
No Easy Noise
In a poetic sequence playing with the negation by spacing and elimination (a “now” becomes a “no w here” and simply a “no”) [though not presented explicitly as such in the text nor in this particular order], one is immersed … Continue reading
Deconstructing Sculpture in Music
Here are some notes made after a presentation or lecture by David Toop. They are dated November 14, 2002. At one point David Toop touched upon the commonplace figure of the move in Western musical discourse about composition from auditory … Continue reading
What Works Well
The preparation for reading appeals to all the senses. It is a cross-modal activity. It sounds like a lot of fun. Teachers help children become more aware of the phonemes within words through a sort of armamentarium of opportunities — … Continue reading
Hope
It has travelled on a torn piece of yellow sticky whose glue is no longer effective. It was found tucked under a paper clip in a gathering of similar short sequences that might be suitable to incorporate into some longer … Continue reading
Of Sounds and Languages
Torill Mortensen in a Wednesday, January 25, 2006 entry “Returning Home” on the blog thinking with my fingers writes I feel homesick for a language that touches me in a different manner, a longing towards harsh consonants, clear vowels and … Continue reading
Rise Up Rhythm
Seen on a T-shirt. DIG DA RID EM It took a double take to capture the essence. And when I did, I really dug the link between the power of chant or drum and the casting out of the undesirable: … Continue reading
Conveyance
Brian Swann in the introduction to Wearing the Morning Star: Native American Song-Poems explains the nature of song sounds. He elaborates in a note: Vocables, until recently dubbed “meaningless syllables,” can in fact be very complex. It has been pointed … Continue reading