switchbacks of notes

this...is...blog catch up day.....


there's this thing....here is a glimpse into what kind of weird crap I think about.....

and my husband loves the rabbit holes I go down.....

the galaxy of ideas....nebulous.....

I'm not even sure what it is...my ear pics up some weird type of melody, or a sequence of tone changes- well....yes, melody, then, but not a set melody...more of the way high and low contrast each other...

....I've heard it in many different songs...

I'm not even sure what it is...so I'm gathering a list of them, as I hear them....

I know....this is the weird shit that academics do.....  start gathering data to analyze later...because I know I'm hearing something interesting....and I want to figure that shit out...


and so....that's me.   sometimes I think these things are normal...and then I write it out...like here...

and think....huh.

maybe this is a weird thing only...I'm doing...and then I start to research it...and then find out...I find some crazy journal article like in some music journal about exactly what I am trying to figure out....


hahaha.

and so anyway....


when I figure it out...you'll be the first to know.  :)   shoot...if I could explain it...maybe I could even get other people to send me similar songs...and create my own type of corpus....to figure out some kind of very obvious pattern....it's probably mathematical....you know...like a third...or fifth...or something that has to do with sharps and flats...or meandering portamento...whatever the heck it is....

I've started emailing myself names of the songs as I hear them....fascinating...I bet you are on the edge of your seat....

wow.  :)


and so...anyway.....the life of a linguist....the ears are always 'on' and listening...analyzing...how you say shit....and for me...I'm listening to melodies...in music...in language....

I've probably been primed to be a linguist my whole life....I think when you have a parent who says something different than what she is actually saying...you get pretty good at pragmatics and prosody....and those skills get sharpened...

and instead of a syntactician.... I'm a phonologist. voila.

so yeah...I've been training to be a linguist my whole life.  :)


peace...and love....and really....really listening....not just hearing....but....truly listening....

Fónagy, Ivan, and Klara Magdics. "Emotional patterns in intonation and music." STUF-Language Typology and Universals 16.1-4 (1963): 293-326.

Kolinsky, Régine, et al. "Processing interactions between phonology and melody: Vowels sing but consonants

speak." Cognition 112.1 (2009) 

Prosody: The Music of Language and Speech: http://www.asha.org/Publications/leader/2003/030304/030304f.htm

and.....many others...