Words can be descriptive, preparatory, communicative. But I'm beginning to understand their original function and capacity to DO things. The first reason a word was made was to have a power - to soothe, sparkle, pierce, open, smother - and a million other things. They get done by saying them, writing them, hearing them, reading them.
So let me back up - the same with those actions, for which I just assigned descriptive words - and these movements I do. Of course, movements can also just be descriptive, preparatory, communicative - but they ultimately have power to enact. It's simple common-sense truth: that doing things does things - and the hardest to grasp. This is magic, but not the way we've commonly been taught to understand that word.
What I don't know is if a well-practiced move or a sponteneous move has more power - or some combination of the two - or if it just depends on the circumstance.
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Lynda Barry said in her book What It Is that a word, when written in longhand, has such a different effect on your creative process than when you type the same word. That it's somehow richer, or gives more feedback, or pleasure in the way that listening to an LP record gives pleasure the way a CD can't...
...I would like to think there's a unique creative effect from typing, too, that we just haven't fully realized yet :)
the words are all out there, they just haven't all gotten around to attaching themselves to 'things' yet
typing was always out there, but it did take a long while for it to get around to attaching itself to 'words'
i saw Ron 'Typewriter' Mingo perform live in 1979 and he brought music to typing that had always been out there, but had just not gotten around to attaching itself to fingers yet
try watching the video without the audio, and a different music will attach itself to Clare's body
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Jason
swimming actions, happiness, muscles in sunshine and opera!!!! a great rite!
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