Transmodality

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I suppose posting at 2:30 in the morning isn't the best way to update a blog. (edit: especially whent it takes me an hour to write a single entry)

Friday night after writing the two blog entries and responding to emails,
I saw Our Brother The Native : http://www.myspace.com/ourbrotherthenative
They dealt with distortions through various pedals and sources creating waves rushing against slow gratifying beats billowing airflows huddling echoes of landscapes together. Surgical dancing guitar work, clarinet, delay pedals, goat toes, samplers, electric organ. Whirly.

But information,
Take it / distort it / study

create:
a viable language of non-language //
embracing lost artifacts in methods of translations

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see: http://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/~mattd/sine-wave-speech/

Rubin, N., Nakayama, K. and Shapley, R. research the perception of sine-wave degradation of voices. The degradations are created by signalling out the formant frequencies and synthesizing waves in the center between each formant:


I recommend you check out the samples on the website shown to understand the audio manipulations. To quote the site directly:

"As you listen to these four examples, you may find that you get better at understanding the sine-wave speech first time around. This is an example of perceptual learning. Having heard several examples of sine-wave speech, your perceptual system has tuned into this form of distortion, so as to be able to perceive new sine-wave speech sentences more clearly."

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Simply,
The noise musican has the sonically educative power to expand the naive ear to hear sound anew, within themselves and their community.

Later: Saturday research.