Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song There Can Be No Dispute That Monsters Live Among Us, artist - The Sound Of Animals Fighting. Album song Lover, The Lord Has Left Us..., in the genre
Date of issue: 27.10.2008
Record label: Equal Vision
Song language: English
There Can Be No Dispute That Monsters Live Among Us |
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 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 it 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 |
Sung 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» |
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 |