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... that can be observed as they emerge, mature, and rapidly decay. Central European modernism, represented here by Adolf Loos in architecture and by Arnold Schoenberg and Leoš Janáček in music, experimented with blurry regions between presence and absence, light and shadow, sound and silence. Loos disrupted...

... tension is absent: in North India it is common for audiences composed of both Hindus and Muslims to attend performances in which Hindu vocalists sing devotedly of Allah, and Muslim vocalists of Krishna. Hindustani musicians of whatever faith, it is argued, worship Nada-Brahman, the Hindu “Sound-God...

... Indian masters, both Hindu and Muslim, and concluded that it is the shared concept of a “sound-god” that brings them together on stage in peaceful celebration with audiences from religious communities often at odds. The author’s training in ethnomusicology began in India in 1992, immediately after...

... that such courses involve both gains and losses. Learning to lecture in front of a blank screen in an airless studio is not easy but has its own rewards if a professional media staff amasses and edits images and sounds. Teaching assistants also have to develop new techniques for involving students in discussion...

... fusion of history and autobiography, this study ranges across the themes of sound and silence, solitude and desert, community and home, combining the past and the present, the historical and the personal, in a unique way. Driven by the conviction that “our sounding world deeply shapes our sense of place...

... way toward the mechanical writing and reproducing of sound). of reproducing and the writing opened that mechanical the thinking toward way conceptual and technical in evolutions various the traced prophetic (historians of audio culture like Jonathan Sterne and James Lastra have Some...

... Williams Rhyme, said John Milton, “the invention of a barbarous Age, to set off wretched matter and lame Meeter.” If he sounds testy, it is because he has taken much trouble over Paradise Lost, Common Knowledge 10:3...

... present and essential, that contributes to remembrance of the very thing language obstructs. Words are not only concepts but also sound. It is 599 true that the sonorous aspect of words often disappears behind their meaning, perhaps because the sound helps...

... and a Muslim woman come to share a spiritual union through their love and devotion to the sounds of heavy metal. It is a union or communion that can be experienced by all listeners. When they reach the privacy of their rooms, each listener puts on a headphone and lets the music take over. All begin to move...

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... the apparitions and voices seen or uttered by himself; for it was well said of old that to do and to know one s own and oneself belongs only to those who are sound of mind. Wherefore also it is customary to set up the tribe of prophets 4. Colish, Mirror of Language, 8. 5. On the topic of signs and their role...

... and microphones by captured is that (ambient) sound is sound Stereo sound. 18 17 16...

... shown, again and again, the supernal value of reading and sounding poems with preternatural attention to the “stuff” that makes them up—sound textures and rhythms alongside the choice of one word or phrase rather than other similar (possibly synonymous) words or phrases, repetitions, puns, and homonyms...

... on theological and political topics, or on the private affairs of commoners or other people, through which those present or absent might suffer some injury, shall be abolished and forbidden. 6 Folded together in this statute are instructions relating to sound and silence, and to music and speech both...

... the instrument; Balmont rightly said of him that he kissed sounds with his fingers. His fingers really did move smoothly and tenderly, as if taking their time, even lingering, so as to draw out the pleasure. He caressed every key, only for the piano to give birth...

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... a PreFab, a hopeful gesture in an age of helplessness. Schwitters was a collector of the discarded, of the disregarded, of the unregarded, and out of the debris he made beauty. He made poetry (if poetry it may be called) out of sounds, noises sounding in the ear like those made by the guns that had daily...

... to convey the distinctly archaic nature of the Hebrew text. 3. Hoffmann, Where Did the Sounds Go? , 15 . Hoffmann describes this quality in its Eastern origin as follows: “Zen stories and Haiku poems are like our faces in the mirror, exactly as they are. They are the essence of simplicity...

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... was only the beginning of knowledge. He believed that, while exercises in reading are essential to life, they are insufficient in themselves. Walden makes this argument not discursively but by enacting it. The title of the fourth chapter of Walden , which follows the one called “Reading,” is “Sounds...