{"id":18546,"date":"2017-02-05T05:16:28","date_gmt":"2017-02-05T03:16:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kulturtechno.de\/?p=18546"},"modified":"2017-01-29T18:20:33","modified_gmt":"2017-01-29T16:20:33","slug":"memorizing-the-tristan-chord","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kulturtechno.de\/?p=18546","title":{"rendered":"Memorizing the Tristan Chord"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>As any conscientious student from Hong Kong would tell you, one way to internalize an aural phenomenon is to make up a Cantonese phrase that replicates the pitch contour of the aural phenomenon in question. This method is effective for a range of academic pursuits, from foreign language pronunciation and musical passage memorization, to mathematical equation recitation.<br \/>\n[&#8230;]<br \/>\nThrough an open call, I recruited Cantonese speakers from Hong Kong to invent Cantonese phrases that would map perfectly onto the pitch contour that leads up to and immediately follows the Tristan chord.<br \/>\n[&#8230;]<br \/>\nThe texts that the participants came up with fall loosely into four categories: (1) auto-biographical statements, (2) haiku-like poetic expressions, (3) responses to the scenario of the interview itself, (4) lists of things. Phrases from categories 1 and 3 were often surprisingly personal and borderline Freudian. Participants brought their preoccupations into the process. Singing sessions turn into confessions of repressed desires. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/norient.com\/blog\/memorizing-the-tristan-chord\/\"><br \/>\nhttp:\/\/norient.com\/blog\/memorizing-the-tristan-chord\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/63645281\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/63643274\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/63643109\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/63645466\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/63645603\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As any conscientious student from Hong Kong would tell you, one way to internalize an aural phenomenon is to make up a Cantonese phrase that replicates the pitch contour of the aural phenomenon in question. This method is effective for a range of academic pursuits, from foreign language pronunciation and musical passage memorization, to mathematical [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-museum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kulturtechno.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18546"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kulturtechno.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kulturtechno.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kulturtechno.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kulturtechno.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18546"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.kulturtechno.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18548,"href":"http:\/\/www.kulturtechno.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18546\/revisions\/18548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kulturtechno.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kulturtechno.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kulturtechno.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}