we also have sound houses

We have also sound-houses, where we practise and demonstrate all sounds, and theirgeneration. We have harmonies which you have not, of quarter-sounds, and lesserslides of sounds. Divers instruments of music likewise to you unknown, somesweeter than any you have; together with bells and rings that are dainty and sweet. Werepresent small sounds as great and deep; likewise great sounds extenuate and sharp;we make divers tremblings and warblings of sounds, which in their original are entire.We represent and imitate all articulate sounds and letters, and the voices and notes ofbeasts and birds. We have certain helps which, set to the ear, do further the hearinggreatly. We have also divers strange and artificial echoes, reflecting the voice manytimes and, as it were, tossing it; and some that give back the voice louder than itcame; some shriller, and some deeper; yea, some rendering the voice differing in theletters or articulate sound from that they receive. We have also means to conveysounds in trunks and pipes, in strange lines and distances. ________________________ In strange lines and distances; JT Lowen 2008

; JT Lowen 2008

Wrong. It's Francis Bacon 1626.

http://wearsthetrousers.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/special_radiophonics2.png

xpost yeah srs i don't know where that came from, i think maybe the sig of the website where i grabbed it

It's from The New Atlantis: http://oregonstate.edu/instruct/phl302/texts/bacon/atlantis.html

The "sound houses" paragraph was adopted by BBC Radiophonic founder Daphne Oram as the unofficial motto of the workshop. EMS printed it on the front page of the manuals for the Synthi A.

i know all that, but thanks

JT Lowen is me and I'd love to know how you found it - as I used it as an attributed quote by Bacon in an artwork called in strange lines and distances. Guess its mutating online now.

http://www.jtlowen.org.uk/

i was listening to spectrum's album "forever alien" and there's a bit where sonic boom reads the piece. so i decided to post it up here in tribute to the genius of "forever alien" and so i googled the first few words "we also have sound houses". you were like the first hit.

Thanks - the bacon text is a fantastic piece of visionary writing

this is dope

BRAGGIN 1626