Here's my first try to appropriate a fragment of arabic language through audition & repetition. I found that randomly on the web and have only a vague idea of what it could mean (you can view the source HERE). i did my best and rehearsed a lot to achieve this personal version of it. i had to slow down the original file so that i can repeat it.
rather than discussing the meaning of it, i'd like to know if people can understand anything, recognise elements of their language and contribute by sending us their own soundfiles so that we can repeat it.
the same file, back to original speed. ... any comment ?
January 17, 2007
January 16, 2007
Whose dream?
A Dream : knowing a foreign language without understanding it : to perceive the Difference in it, without this Difference being ever caught up and flattened by the superficial sociality of language, by communication or habit… to learn the systematic of unseizability ; to resolve our reality under the influence of another organisation, another syntax ; to discover unheard positions of the subject in its expression… in other words to descend in the untranslatable and feel its vibration… until the whole Occident inside us starts to waver and together with it the right of the father tongue, this language that we inherited from our fathers and which makes us again the fathers and owners of a culture, which History metamorphoses into nature.
This was Roland Barthes' fantasma of giving the Others a place, as he was encountering Japan.
Another Roland, tells you an epic song of the 11th century, explodes his brain while blowing in his horn as he encountered the Others he would only fear.
Now you have teeth and tongue. What the hell can they do? They would let the Others blow through them, as a first step. A new epos ?
This was Roland Barthes' fantasma of giving the Others a place, as he was encountering Japan.
Another Roland, tells you an epic song of the 11th century, explodes his brain while blowing in his horn as he encountered the Others he would only fear.
Now you have teeth and tongue. What the hell can they do? They would let the Others blow through them, as a first step. A new epos ?
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presentation,
talking heads
January 15, 2007
START
A DREAM: KNOWING A FOREIGN LANGUAGE WITHOUT UNDERSTANDING IT
teeth & tongue will be in Cairo very soon.
teeth & tongue will be in Cairo very soon.
this blog will document their encounters in the cairosphere.
teeth & tongue don't speak arabic at all, they are too lazy.
however they would like to be other people's voice.
record yourself saying anything in arabic you want to hear from us.
use the recorder on the right, but don't tell us what it means.
teeth
& tongue will repeat your speech as identic as possible and put it
back on this blog, following the talking heads principle.
teeth & tongue, as a membrane of you, thank you.
some of the posts contain large audiofiles, so be patient if you have a slow connection.
use headphones and the Mozilla Firefox internet browser for best results.
find your way and make your own sound mix
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appel,
presentation,
start
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