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[Copied from a comment at 'here comes trudy' http://anorecticavatar.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/here-comes-trudy.html ]
ReplyDelete"outside of all standardized language, saying something almost coherent, then coherent, then almost audible, then audible"
It's interesting to compare the sonic language of 'trudy' to the "linguistic carapace or skeleton referencing something absent, something lost in language or thought" that is the debris in 'anorectic avatar redux' ( http://anorecticavatar.blogspot.com/2012/05/anorectic-avatar-redux.html )
When we listen to 'trudy', 'trudy' gets inside us and envelopes us, affects us. We feel, we move to the rhythm, we can interpret, we understand... something. The linguistic carapace affects us less (at least, it affects me less). It may reference "something absent, something lost" but I don't feel or sense the loss. The glyphs and their configuration don't hold me the way the sound holds me. It becomes a pattern, more textile than textual. Like wallpaper. As a pattern, it's full, quite busy.
I agree with you. The debris piece was created by playing several games of 'hangman' in a terminal, and then modifying the results, keeping only the letter guesses. So there are these strings that relate to guessing words, but the words are missing; what's present is only the shell, the debris.
ReplyDeleteI did a piece last night (textual) inspired by your own response in the remix; I'll put it up shortly.
Thanks! Alan
Ah, a game of Hangman, that's very appropriate!
ReplyDeleteActually yes and I just realized it might have led to another appendage for errors if the designers were inclined that way. The version in linux text is really good with complicated words, some of them made up, the way Johnson made up words for his dictionary out of latin suffixes.
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