#Speech is the source for reflection through sound
Translation into sound
Quotations
What has to happen before we feel the need to reflect?
What are we doing when reflecting through words?
How do we know when we have succeeded?
How do we store it?
(analogy to words as a medium: speech is sammensat of sound and words, -words can be extracted out and used as a medium = text; is it similar when we extract sound and use it as a medium (and movement))
In what kind of situation is it relevant to use words as a medium for reflection?
In what situations is it relevant to use sound as a medium?
Restaging sound, abstracting movements in sound from speech
Examples from each side of sahara
Instruments ?
Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events; Small minds discuss people. Eleanor Roosevelt.
Broadly speaking, the small words are the best, and the old words best of all Winston Churchill
By three ways we might learn wisdom: First by reflection, which is the noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest. Confucius
When something occurs that doesn’t fit in with our world
Reflecting is a process of “bending back” something with your thoughts..
Words are the tools, so we are basically simply taking existing words and combine them in a number of ways until we get a satisfactory result
Tools: Narratives, scripts, ….
Metaphors, from agriculture, war, sports
The success of our reflection depends on the extent to which it can help us integrate the new into the known
Condensed little ready mades, easily tradable : proverbs
Words are binary
Imitating movement
Sound is gradient
In speech, we stage what we want to share, by imitating the temporal characteristics of events, in sound
When reflecting through words we are using words that we already use in speech, and play around with their meaning, in another medium, trying to make this new combination fit with what is going on around us.
This other medium is simply what we call text, - though we need to understand it in a broad sense.
We can see reflection through sound in a similar way
The prosodic or musical elements of speech can be seen as small significative phrases build in sound.
We can extract these phrases, by imitation and play with them in a medium which is different from the medium in which they were made.
early 15c., “to divert, to turn aside, deflect,” from O.Fr. reflecter (14c.), from L. reflectere (see reflection). Of mirrors or polished
We are playing with words, combining them in new ways, - words are all we have, to do it!
Can name things, and set up categories
Have a hard time showing relations between elements that unfold in time and space
“I’m moved“
Acceleration, velocity, density of events in time
Examples of acceleration, crescendo, etc in space and in sound
Analogy between refl through words and through sound. The stem from the same source, speech, though with different modalities.