This week's question: In what ways have you experienced communication without spoken language? What were these experiences like?
(In case you're interested, the images above are from the "typographic ballet" Body Language, in which a dancer contorts herself inside a specially-constructed spandex bag to create letters from the human form. Performed by: Amy Oldham)
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I came to realize that silence is outer peace and inner war. I remain silent so that peace can be attained and in the end, there is a constant war in my soul.
I've heard it said by those in communications research that 70 percent of communication is non-verbal... all the various ways we speak with our bodies, our "looks", our attitudes, our
pauses, our silences...
So - while we may think we're "communicating" more (via e-mail, text messaging, cell phone etc.), we may actually be communicating less. More words, less presence.
Or... perhaps... more acquaintances, fewer friends.
As an amateur musician, I feel that music can clearly communicate so much more than language. Is it more clarity? Probably not. But it is an essential expression and critical form of listening. We all know what our favourite pieces of music can do to us and for us. In many ways, it's far more than any words could ever do.
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