Interesting. Are you saying pre-music, or pre-sound? I can see the first better than the second, because when I read poetry, there's always a little voice in my head reading the words as if reading out loud, so text as pre-sound just doesn't compute for me.
Somewhere between the two, actually. There's usually not a little voice in my head, or at least not a discrete one, but I recognize that's just me being weird.
Did you ever feel, after singing a huge choral work, that something inside yourself was silent -- that there was no more need for speech or sound of any kind? Or when waking up in the middle of the night, that any language or sound you could add to the peacefulness of this moment would be superfluous? That's the kind of silence that's inherent in poetry, to me. (Clearly I haven't made much sense of that yet.)
Is it your own voice that you hear in your head, or someone else's?
I think basically I just said you are too educated to enjoy music.
I dunno. It ought to work the other way; I've been studying text what, fifteen years longer than I've been studying music?
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Date: 2009-03-29 07:09 pm (UTC)I think I'm a robot.
Interesting. Are you saying pre-music, or pre-sound? I can see the first better than the second, because when I read poetry, there's always a little voice in my head reading the words as if reading out loud, so text as pre-sound just doesn't compute for me.
Somewhere between the two, actually. There's usually not a little voice in my head, or at least not a discrete one, but I recognize that's just me being weird.
Did you ever feel, after singing a huge choral work, that something inside yourself was silent -- that there was no more need for speech or sound of any kind? Or when waking up in the middle of the night, that any language or sound you could add to the peacefulness of this moment would be superfluous? That's the kind of silence that's inherent in poetry, to me. (Clearly I haven't made much sense of that yet.)
Is it your own voice that you hear in your head, or someone else's?
I think basically I just said you are too educated to enjoy music.
I dunno. It ought to work the other way; I've been studying text what, fifteen years longer than I've been studying music?