My father had a phonograph! It played "records", which as Spike Jones
said, are "those funny discs, the kind with the hole in the middle"
and I also thought "gramophone" was a weighty sound... is heavy music
kilo-gramophone?
And even these days, at music gigs, people ask if I "taped that?" so
I tell them, no only video still uses tape...
I have also never written an email, only typed them.
Wonderful world of words!
I rest my case...
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Lou Judson =95 Intuitive Audio
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On Mar 27, 2009, at 4:46 PM, Bernie Krause wrote:
> A geograph was a map, before "maps", that is. (Hence, geography)
> A sonograph is a graphic display of sound. (Here, the language is
> precise)
> Graphs, from whatever source, primarily expressed a visual context.
>
> I never understood the combination prefix/suffix of phono + graph
> since, as Murray
> Schafer once wrote, "Je n'ai jamais vu un son." ("I have never seen a
> sound.")
> So the unlikely expression, "phonography," is even more obscure and
> contradictory.
>
> Bernie
>
>
>
> On Mar 27, 2009, at 4:25 PM, escalation746 wrote:
>
>> Lou Judson wrote:
>>
>>> Curiosity about "Phonography" as a term.
>>
>> I think it's an odd term myself. I always think of "phonograph"
>> which makes me think it's something related to either turntablism or
>> musique concrete!
>>
>> -- robin
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