Archetypal sounds are imbued with meanings recognized across all cultures and understood according to their universal associations.
All languages speak to the poetic essence of aural meaning. These are the sounds of ceremony and ritual, triumph and whimsy, the awe-inspiring, the bittersweet, the fearful and the serene.
Drum, flute, gong, voice, stringed instrument, bell, shaker; through variation and combination these come to represent the essential elements of ideas and emotions in symbolic ways, as do verbal expressions.
And like love, honor, justice, sadness, threat, peace and all other symbolic meanings communicated via language, whether in casual, formal, popular, esoteric, spiritual or secular terms, a profound degree of meaning is conveyed in the form of tone-- immediately recognized, instantly and intensely understood.
All languages speak to the poetic essence of aural meaning. These are the sounds of ceremony and ritual, triumph and whimsy, the awe-inspiring, the bittersweet, the fearful and the serene.
Drum, flute, gong, voice, stringed instrument, bell, shaker; through variation and combination these come to represent the essential elements of ideas and emotions in symbolic ways, as do verbal expressions.
And like love, honor, justice, sadness, threat, peace and all other symbolic meanings communicated via language, whether in casual, formal, popular, esoteric, spiritual or secular terms, a profound degree of meaning is conveyed in the form of tone-- immediately recognized, instantly and intensely understood.
