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Side 1: Malaman

from 7704B - Malaman by Annea Lockwood

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A Note on "Malaman:"

"Malaman" is a chanting of words for 'sound' from several languages. They are chanted with the intention of releasing their inherent sound-energy and are neither words for music nor for sound-as-noise, but are words for sound as one of the world's primal energies, in the sense that light is a prime energy. They are the oldest words I can discover, to date.

In order to move beyond the performance of these sounds, in order to initiate of flow of unbroken energy we chant them in their original pronunciation, not consciously making rhythmic or tonal variants, as one chants a mantra, does not perform it. Then the variants which come about appear as a part of the process of chance which the sounds' energy induces--they happen to the chanter." --Annea Lockwood

The following words are transliterations and are not spelled phonetically.

ingyam (Cantonese)
tsooin (Welsh)
fooin (Gaelic)
ayhos (Greek, with a gutteral 'h')
duidum (Turkish)
malaman (Australian Maung tribe, Northern Territory, the 'a' as in car)
soun (Middle English)
klang (German)
sadeu (Singhalese, a 'a' as in sad, the 'eu' as in French, deux)
sote (Persian, as in French, saut)
leeud (Swedish, the 'ee' very fast and 'ud' as in hood)
swara (Malay)
awnee (Yoruba, 'aw' at the back of the throat, with a fairly closed mouth position)
n'zeembo (Shona, 'n' a deep chest grunt)
nad (sanskrit)
anhadnad (sansckrit, all 'a's are long; meaning - the unstruck sound)

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from 7704B - Malaman, released April 21, 1977

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AUDIOGRAPHICS was a New Wilderness Foundation project of the 1970s. AUDIOGRAPHICS offered a number of sound artists the opportunity to record a variety of works - experimental and traditional music, poetry, storytelling and other sound and language art - in a professional recording studio. Now, you can stream these AUDIOGRAPHICS releases, here. ... more

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