Quote for Today: Olivier Messaien
© MickSeventyFour with CCLicense I give bird songs to those who dwell in cities and have never heard them, make rhythms for those who know only military marches or jazz, and paint colors for those who...
View ArticleThe Complexities of What We Hear: Robot Mouths and Speaking Pianos
Gemini robot in conversation© Peter Čuhalev with CCLicense The drive to understand the coordination between the mind and body that produces language is a powerful source of innovation. The following...
View ArticleQuote for Today: Aron Ralston
Blue John Canyon, UTimage © Michael Grindstaff with CCLicense I limited myself to one shout a day. But I didn’t like the sound of my voice. It sounded panicked, it sounded scared. And I knew from...
View ArticleQuote for Today: Haruki Murakami
Carina Nebula Public Domain image taken by the Hubble Space Telescope Beyond the edge of the world there’s a space where emptiness and substance neatly overlap, where past and future form a continuous,...
View ArticleQuote for Today: Friedrich Nietzsche
A man has no ears for that which he cannot access through experience. To take an extreme case, suppose a book contains only incidents which lie outside the range of general or even rare...
View ArticleQuote for Today: Jacqueline Carey
Hupao, “Dreaming of the Tiger”, Spring, Hangzhou, Chinaimage © Sh1019 with CCLicense Your dreaming self seeks to tell you something your waking ears will not hear. ―Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel’s Chosen
View ArticleQuote for Today: Tetsuko Kuroyanagi
Gyohei Zaitsu performing Butoh dance © Duc with CCLicense Having eyes, but not seeing beauty; having ears, but not hearing music; having minds, but not perceiving truth; having hearts that are never...
View ArticleQuote for Today: Criss Jami
There is a master way with words which is not learned but is instead developed: a deaf man develops exceptional vision, a blind man exceptional hearing, a silent man, when given a piece of paper…...
View ArticleQuote for Today: Javier Marías
Listening is the most dangerous thing of all, listening means knowing, finding out about something and knowing what’s going on, our ears don’t have lids that can instinctively close against the...
View ArticleQuote for Today: David Augsburger
Who do we appreciate? © woodleywonderworks with CCLicense Being heard is so close to being loved that for the average person, they are almost indistinguishable. ―David Augsburger
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