Lines 1

-- How would you express sound without lines
-- translation of sound into line
-- four lines of the staff -- created a concrete wall separating sound and incanting.  People can "see" sound as if was conceived without ever needing to hear it.

Wes, Jen, Anna, Josh, Kyle

-- meaning of words are supposed to lie behind the sounds
-- sound cannot belong to language
-- all writing speaks, we read to listen
-- the surfaces of lines might be similar, but their nature often differs, e.g., language and music
-- the fundamental change in our experience of final project lies in moving through verses looking at.
-- only experiencing end product obscures journey and the authors.

Avery + Aaron


-- We think that Ingold is too quick to dismiss the importance of tone and inflection in speech.


-- We think the distinction between sound and meaning is a Western one.  Take Chinese, for example, where tone is essential to meaning.


-- There seem to be many exceptions to this rule, i/e/, script for plays -- written words that denote how speech is to be performed.

Emma, Tracy, Hania, Eric

The silence of the written words is a modern convention that has not always existed in language.  By silencing text, we lose the journey of the voice and the emotion within lines that once was so essential.  Poetry perhaps contains the key to this lost richness.

Lauren, Esmé, Emily