There Can Be No Dispute That Monsters Live Among Us Lyrics - Singles - The Sound Of Animals Fighting

New music 

New listening 

Not an attempt to understand something that is said 

For if something were being said 

The sounds would be given the shapes of words 

Just an attention to the activity of sound 

New means change the method 

New means change the experience 

And new experiences change man 

Whenever we hear sounds we are changed 

We are no longer the same 

After hearing certain sounds 

And this is the more the case 

When we hear organized sounds 

Sounds organized by another human being 

Music 

Our entire system of values 

Of the things we accept to be true 

Is based on the visual sounds 

You have to sign a paper 

Because your word 

Is not enough to be trusted 

As a result the acoustic faculty 

In human beings has declined 

As it has become possible 

To define a continuum between sounds and noises 

Completely new problems have come up for 

When we compose or play intuitively 

Because we have no training 

Whatsoever in balancing tones and noises 

Traditionally in western music 

Noises have been taboo 

And there are precise reasons for this 

It has become from began from the time 

When staff notations were introduced 

Traditionally in western music 

Noises have been taboo 

And there are precise reasons for this 

It began from the time 

When staff notations were introduced 

And music could be noted 

In precise intervals for the first time 

Then it was mainly vocal music 

Some predominantly with vowels 

Rather than consonants 

If I sing a melody of consonants now 

People would say, it isn't music 

We have no tradition of music 

Composed in these sounds 

And no notation for it 

There you see how narrow our concept of music is 

From having excluded consonants the noises 

Of course you find consonants in vocal music 

But only in order to make a word comprehensible 

That's the function of a consonant in our daily language 

To clarify the meaning 

But in a musical sense 

Consonants have no function other than as accents 

S S or T or K or K 

To start or end sound clearly 

I respond to sounds directly 

Sound is my air 

Whenever I deal with sounds they organize themselves 

So to speak 

They respond very well to me and I to them