[lbo-talk] Music & phonetics

[Cassiopeoa DeVine]

Well, there also are the whistling languages (mostly found in mountain
regions).You could even argue that jodeling would be part of the whistling
language family.
It had been found that given the circumstances people were able to
communicate over long distances much easier.

To them it is language. To us it might sound like music.

Cass

On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 4:49 PM, Eubulides <paraconsistent at comcast.net>
wrote:


> wrobert at uci.edu wrote:
>
> > You don't need Cage to get to this.  You can hear it in a lot of old
> > blues, country, and folks songs (particularly the sound of the
> > locomotive.)  robert wood
>
> =============
>
> Yes.
>
> I was merely invoking Cage as shorthand for dismantling the distinction
> between "found" sounds, whether made by animals, rocks or machines and
> music. That involves alot of rethinking/retraining of auditory perception.
>
> "Everything is music." [Pharoah Sanders]
>
> Ian
>
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