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> Asemic writing is a wordless open semantic form of writing. The word asemic means “having no specific semantic content”. With the nonspecificity of asemic wri
by codetrotter 6y ago
> Asemic writing is a wordless open semantic form of writing. The word asemic means “having no specific semantic content”. With the nonspecificity of asemic writing there comes a vacuum of meaning which is left for the reader to fill in and interpret.
Related to this I came to think of something that I found interesting a couple of days ago.
I was making music, and to add some voice to my melodies I began typed out a mixture of gibberish and actual sentences and I chopped them up and re-assembled them and gave them a pleasant sounding flow. Finally I threw some reverb on top and then I played with my keyboard to it.
When I listened to it, I found meaning in it, so then on my next session I wrote a dialog for the song between two people, and kept listening to it over the stuff I had made in the previously mentioned part of the process and tweaked the dialog.
And during all of this, I was finding a story that I don’t think I could have come up with if it wasn’t for this. And yet it was there, but it was in what I was hearing in the reassembled mish-mash of words and nonsense.
At one point I even laughed out loud to myself at the story that was coming together.
That’s pretty closely related to this asemic writing I think.
- zkim 6y agoSounds pretty neat, can you share some audio samples?
- 082349872349872 6y agoEighteenth century generative philosophy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Engine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Engine Fourteenth century: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramon_Llull#Mechanical_aspect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramon_Llull#Mechanical_aspect Ninth century BC: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Ching https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Ching Also: "abstract comics" Picture yourself in a boat on a river With tangerine trees and marmalade skies
- FlashBlaze 6y agoWould really like to hear some samples
- dumb1224 6y agoAs a joke I can confirm that something similar happened to me frequently when I first moved to Europe late 2000s. As a non-native English speaker and because of the thick accent of the local people I constantly mis-heard and made stories out of the completely ordinary daily conversation and amused myself, only find out later it was nothing like what I thought it was.