Date: Thu, 14 May 1998 10:14:25 +0900 (JST)
From: Alan Myouka Sondheim <sondheim-AT-gol.com>
Subject: Re: Language?



re: Kristeva, there might be eruptions of outside the system, within the
system, just like Casals' cello bow squesaked at the end of its shuttling
- there are also sounds, moments, which can't be notated, or whose
notation is always already suspect, I'm thinking of say shakuhachi music
as an example.

So even though musical notation is clearly indexical, performative, there
are gaps, lesions; just as ordinary spoken language is augmented by the
aura of human behavior, so the augmentation of performed music is stripped
in the notation.

In other words, spoken language has extra-linguistic elements which
augment it, but there are musical elements that aren't notated, still
within the music.

Alan



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