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Learning the Grammar of Animacy (inspired by Kimmerer)<ref>Robin Wall Kimmerer, The Democracy of Species</ref> | |||
<blockquote>''<nowiki>''</nowiki>I come here to listen, to nestle in the curve of the roots in a soft hollow of pine needles, to lean my bones against the column of white pine, to turn off the voice in my head until I can hear the voices outside it: the 'shhh' of wind in needles, water trickling over rock, nuthatch tapping, chipmunks digging, beechnut falling, mosquito in my ear, and something more - something that is not me, for which we have no language , the wordless being of others in which we have no language, the wordless being of others in which we are never alone.'' | <blockquote>''<nowiki>''</nowiki>I come here to listen, to nestle in the curve of the roots in a soft hollow of pine needles, to lean my bones against the column of white pine, to turn off the voice in my head until I can hear the voices outside it: the 'shhh' of wind in needles, water trickling over rock, nuthatch tapping, chipmunks digging, beechnut falling, mosquito in my ear, and something more - something that is not me, for which we have no language , the wordless being of others in which we have no language, the wordless being of others in which we are never alone.'' | ||
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''To name and describe you must first see, and science polishes the gift of seeing. I honour the strength of the language that has become a second tongue to me. But beneath the richness of its vocabulary and its descriptive power, something is missing, the same something that swells around you and in you when you listen to the world. Science can be a language of distance which reduces a being to its working parts; its a language of objects.<nowiki>''</nowiki>''</blockquote> | ''To name and describe you must first see, and science polishes the gift of seeing. I honour the strength of the language that has become a second tongue to me. But beneath the richness of its vocabulary and its descriptive power, something is missing, the same something that swells around you and in you when you listen to the world. Science can be a language of distance which reduces a being to its working parts; its a language of objects.<nowiki>''</nowiki>''</blockquote> | ||
==Internal imagery and exploratory sketches<ref>R. Murray Schafer, A Sound Education: 100 Exercises in Listening and Sound-making</ref> | ==Internal imagery and exploratory sketches == | ||
The project reflects R. Murray Schafer, A Sound Education: 100 Exercises in Listening and Sound-making<ref>R. Murray Schafer, A Sound Education: 100 Exercises in Listening and Sound-making</ref> | |||
These exercises are not merely about hearing but about '''listening with intention, observing with curiosity, and expressing with creativity'''. The worksheets may provide a structured yet open-ended framework for engaging with the acoustic dimensions of the world around us. | These exercises are not merely about hearing but about '''listening with intention, observing with curiosity, and expressing with creativity'''. The worksheets may provide a structured yet open-ended framework for engaging with the acoustic dimensions of the world around us. | ||