Comments on: The Tyranny of Words http://www.chandacom-xculture.net/the-tyranny-of-words/ Just another WordPress weblog Wed, 08 Sep 2010 21:22:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 By: Michael Spencer http://www.chandacom-xculture.net/the-tyranny-of-words/comment-page-1/#comment-700 Michael Spencer Thu, 23 Jul 2009 19:26:15 +0000 http://www.chandacom-xculture.net/?p=648#comment-700 I was lucky enough to be invited into one at the UCL Ear Institute. Quite a scary experience actually. It makes you realise how much we use our ears to determine our bearings and the nature of our surroundings. I was lucky enough to be invited into one at the UCL Ear Institute. Quite a scary experience actually. It makes you realise how much we use our ears to determine our bearings and the nature of our surroundings.

]]> By: Silvia Cambie http://www.chandacom-xculture.net/the-tyranny-of-words/comment-page-1/#comment-699 Silvia Cambie Thu, 23 Jul 2009 17:00:58 +0000 http://www.chandacom-xculture.net/?p=648#comment-699 Framing the silence with improvisation is such an interesting idea... I have never been in an anechoic chamber. Where can I find one? Framing the silence with improvisation is such an interesting idea… I have never been in an anechoic chamber. Where can I find one?

]]> By: Michael Spencer http://www.chandacom-xculture.net/the-tyranny-of-words/comment-page-1/#comment-696 Michael Spencer Thu, 23 Jul 2009 13:14:30 +0000 http://www.chandacom-xculture.net/?p=648#comment-696 I feel it is a common misconception about musical improvisation that it is often considered as something you do to fill the silences with sound, when in fact some of the most effective improvisation is really more about how one frames the silences. Without becoming too esoteric, one has to question what the true meaning of silence is anyway. Even in an anechoic chamber where all sound is sucked away we can still hear our nervous and pulmonary systems. There is only one moment when we are truly in silence...and that, unfortunately, is rather terminal! I feel it is a common misconception about musical improvisation that it is often considered as something you do to fill the silences with sound, when in fact some of the most effective improvisation is really more about how one frames the silences.

Without becoming too esoteric, one has to question what the true meaning of silence is anyway. Even in an anechoic chamber where all sound is sucked away we can still hear our nervous and pulmonary systems. There is only one moment when we are truly in silence…and that, unfortunately, is rather terminal!

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