Subject: Re: phonons/phonemes/phonograph
From: sylvi macCormac (sylvi@istar.ca)
Date: Wed Jan 03 2001 - 17:36:06 EST
sorry to take so long to reply to your thoughtful suggestions. i must note my
'spelling' of Martin Fumarola and 1955 was incorrect, being busy presently
and rushing. my apologies for linguistic slip ...
Kevin. thankyou. i will listen and think about this. and read/hear analyses.
i look forward to the 'process/processing' and sincerely thanks again to
Roald for recommending the albums dealing with phonemes ... i look forward to
listening to them on my phonograph :) i save the CEC info in a folder and
will be able to access the information whether link/text/audio etc references
as they continue to relate to my studies / work ... EA & Soundscape:
soundlanguagemusiccommunicationtechnology ... now i've got to go practice my
Latin / Gaelic ... ;)
Just curious .. May i ask for clarification? did Hugh LeCaine compose
Dripsody in 1955 or 57? i have understood it to be 1955, not 1957 / 1995 /
2057 ... From, A Guide to Electronic Music, "Le Caine, Hugh (b. Port Arthur,
Ontario, 1914). Active in electronic music as composer and instrument-builder
since the thirties. 'Dripsody' (1955, 2'), tape. Folkways 33436" Canadian,
eh?
best for the new millenium and the next :) macCormac / sylvi
KEVIN AUSTIN wrote: ...
> But does ea/cm have (the) properties of a 'language' (as outlined above)?
>
> Is there a way to 'evaluate' vocabulary elements? Is there a way to
> determine whether the elements have been 'correctly' (or acceptably)
> placed (or ordered)?
>
> Are there common elements between "Kontakte" and "Just more idle
> chatter"? What are they? At what level in the hierarchy of 'musical'
> perception do these common elements occur? (eg ... They are both made up
> of sounds, which is a pretty fundamental commonality.)
>
> Take a number of pieces (I would recommend, for example, DisContact II
> and/or either or both of Presence I and II), and compare them regarding
> 'vocabulary'. What is common (and at what level)? Are there things which
> are common to _all_ of the pieces? (These might be refered to as
> 'primitives' -- elements which are very 'low' in the ea/cm language tree.)
>
> (There are a number of analyses from Presence I on the CEC site ... have
> a look.)
>
> Happy new year ... which was here three hours before it will be there.
>
> Best
>
> Kevin
> kaustin@vax2.concordia.ca
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