Language is a virus from outer space said William Burroughs but who said;
Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.
this website with bright green text on a black background does not know for my upcoming essay i will be writing about music ( and image and thought) here is a quote and some thoughts;;;
Maybe it would be good to start by drawing comparisons between the action of typing from its origins as an action that operated hammers that "impressed text upon sheets of paper" in drawing comparisons between this and the act of playing the piano; maybe here the way the piano is a device that impersonates the voice in the same way the typewriter is a device that impersonates the act gesture of writing physical writing."
Possibly taking the quote above in mind that the relationship between the voice and the piano the musical instrument has similarities between that of the spoken word and the act of engraving letters. The piano as a reductive tool that takes the sound of the voice converted into musical notes fire a series of hammers possibly I could draw comparison with the typewriter as a device that takes the meaning of the voice and converts it into symbols via again a series of hammers.
"the gesture of piano playing is not, in fact, totally
alien to writing. It is, like writing, a linear gesture, although the lines it
produces are composed of acoustic vibrations, not of letters. It may therefore
be held that if we type we still engrave (at least as far as the intention of
our gesture is concerned), and that the ‘piano quality’ of our gesture stresses
this fact: we no longer engrave with a stick, but with a series of hammers."
- Flusser on writing
Maybe it would be good to start by drawing comparisons between the action of typing from its origins as an action that operated hammers that "impressed text upon sheets of paper" in drawing comparisons between this and the act of playing the piano; maybe here the way the piano is a device that impersonates the voice in the same way the typewriter is a device that impersonates the act gesture of writing physical writing."
Possibly taking the quote above in mind that the relationship between the voice and the piano the musical instrument has similarities between that of the spoken word and the act of engraving letters. The piano as a reductive tool that takes the sound of the voice converted into musical notes fire a series of hammers possibly I could draw comparison with the typewriter as a device that takes the meaning of the voice and converts it into symbols via again a series of hammers.
