testing and nudging
We get to good conversation by a process of testing and nudging.
:- Doug.
This being old
is new to me
and it feels right
:- Doug.
Archive for April 19th, 2022
Vary your elements of sound
Might we use the elements of sound to change, add, vary, contradict, or evaluate our own ways of participating in a conversation, what we do and say? Musicage, p 206, gives these elements of sound: pitch, timbre, amplitude, duration. If we say what we have to say varying these, consciously, how might it expand our perception and thinking?
:- Doug.
Taking each other’s voices
John Cage, in Musicage, p 208, speaks of asking the flautist to go against grain and play “almost imperceptibly” while asking the pianist to play a full range of volumes. There was another group of musicians who experimented with trading instruments—and found new ways to have their musical conversation. Might we do something similar in the middle of a conversation? Not only taking each other’s arguments. Say physical poses (tableaux?), or vocal pitch and rhythm?
:- Doug.
