i don't mind the reference points.
torpor is good too....
tanya pea
On 3/22/06, Alan.R.Lockett@bristol.ac.uk <Alan.R.Lockett@bristol.ac.uk>
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quoted 20 lines Just to pre-empt a mailbox full of 'My Top Ten Tunes To Have SAD To'...>
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> Just to pre-empt a mailbox full of 'My Top Ten Tunes To Have SAD To'...
> Is what's being asked for here not people's *experience* of SAD, and
> not their musical associations for it. Ms Pea will presumably be the
> one who mediates such experience into music through her own semiotic
> associations. I would say that a musician who seeks input to assist in
> writing a piece of music doesn't want to hear about other bits of music
> that people associate with their experience of SAD, but rather aboiut
> the experience itself. Then they do the articulation.
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> From my (second-hand) understanding of this disorder, what stands out
> is a description of a feeling of stasis, of lowness of spirit - a
> disinclination to move or do anything that requires mental or physical
> energy. Torpor is the word.
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> alan
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