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.)
I...don't think so? Possibly I'm just not sure what you're asking.
Is it your own voice that you hear in your head, or someone else's?
Usually it's mine, or a variant of mine (the inner voice, which is always talking--it's saying the words I'm typring right now, for instance--has lots of different accents and pitches). Sometimes it's another person's or an actor's.
I dunno. It ought to work the other way; I've been studying text what, fifteen years longer than I've been studying music?
Maybe it matters that we use language to talk about language and music, instead of using music to talk about music? With music, you have to distance yourself from the medium of transmission to talk about it, whereas when talking about text, you're using the same medium.
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Date: 2009-03-29 10:55 pm (UTC)A robot ninja?
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.)
I...don't think so? Possibly I'm just not sure what you're asking.
Is it your own voice that you hear in your head, or someone else's?
Usually it's mine, or a variant of mine (the inner voice, which is always talking--it's saying the words I'm typring right now, for instance--has lots of different accents and pitches). Sometimes it's another person's or an actor's.
I dunno. It ought to work the other way; I've been studying text what, fifteen years longer than I've been studying music?
Maybe it matters that we use language to talk about language and music, instead of using music to talk about music? With music, you have to distance yourself from the medium of transmission to talk about it, whereas when talking about text, you're using the same medium.