new music
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new listening
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not an attempt to understand something
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that is said
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for if something were being said
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the sounds would be given the shapes of words
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just an attention to the activity of sound
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new means change the method
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new means change the experience
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and new experiences change man
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whenever we hear sounds we are changed
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we are no longer the same
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after hearing certain sounds
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and this is more the case
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when we hear organized sounds
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sounds organized by another human being
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music
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our entire system of values
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of the things we accept to be true
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is based on the visual sounds
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you have to sign a paper because your word is not enough to be trusted
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as a result the acoustic faculty in human beings has declined
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as it has become possible to define a continuum between sounds and noises
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completely new problems have come up when we compose or play intuitively
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because we have no training whatsoever in balancing tones and noises
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traditionally in western music
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noises have been taboo
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and there are precise reasons for this
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it has become from began from the time when staff notations were introduced
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traditionally in western music
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noises have been taboo
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and there are precise reasons for this
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it began from the time when staff notations were introduced
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and music could be noted in precise intervals for the first time
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then it was mainly vocal music
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some predominantly with vowels rather than consonants
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if i sing a melody of consonants now, people would say it isn't music
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we have no tradition of music composed in these sounds
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and no notation for it
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there you see how narrow our concept of music is
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from having excluded consonants the noises
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of course you find consonants in vocals music
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but only in order to make a word comprehensible
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thats the function of a consonant in our daily language
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to clarify the meaning
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but in a musical sense
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consonants have no function other than as accents
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s s or t or k
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to start or end sound clearly
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i respond to sounds directly
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sound is my air
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whenever i deal with sounds they organize themselves, so to speak
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they respond very well to me
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and i to them
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