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!!!!1919 __ Ur-Geräusch (Primal Sound) * Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) * ''Translated excerpt :'' « ^[...^] The coronal suture of the skull (this would first have to be investigated) has –let us assume– a certain similarity to the closely wavy line which the needle of a phonograph engraves on the receiving, rotating cylinder of the apparatus. What if one changed the needle and directed it on its return journey along a tracing which was not derived from the graphic translation of a sound, but existed of itself naturally –well : to put it plainly, along the coronal suture, for example. What would happen ? A sound would necessarily result, a series of sounds, music … Feelings –which ? Incredulity, timidity, fear, awe–which of all the feelings here possible prevents me from suggesting a name for the primal sound which would then make its appearance in the world … Leaving that side for the moment : what variety of lines then, occurring anywhere, could one not put under the needle and try out ? Is there any contour that one could not, in a sense, complete in this way and then experience it, as it makes itself felt, thus transformed, in another field of sense ? ^[...^] The achievements of the microscope, of the telescope, and of so many devices which increase the range of the senses upwards and downwards, do they not lie in another sphere altogether, since most of the increase thus achieved cannot be interpenetrated by the senses, cannot be “experienced” in any real sense ? It is, perhaps, not premature to suppose that the artist, who develops the five-fingered hand of his senses (if one may put it so) to ever more active and more spiritual capacity, contributes more decisively than anyone else to an extension of the several sense fields, only the achievement which gives proof of this does not permit of his entering his personal extension of territory in the general map before us, since it is only possible, in the last resort, by a miracle. ^[...^] » ''(Rainer Maria Rilke, 1919 ; Trans. by Carl Niemeyer)'' * ''Attached references :'' {small}Jean-Marie Guyau (1854-1888), ''La Mémoire et le Phonographe'' (1880).{/small} * ''Sources :'' {small}R. M. Rilke. (1919). ''Primal Sound & Other Prose Pieces''. Trans. by Carl Niemeyer. Massachusetts: Cummington Press, 1943.{/small} {br}{br}
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