Thursday, March 24, 2005

klangfarben melodie

All night long, frogs. Frogs all night. Tree frogs and pond frogs singing together to produce a choral frog song. Listening closely, one can distinguish the unique timbre of individual voices, but together, they produce a nocturnal klangfarben melodie in which a constant, composite pitch is maintained but as voices are added and drop out, the composite is constantly shifting tone color, volume, texture.
No doubt, any two of these frogs are singing dreadfully out-of-tune with one another. Any one of them sounds squeaky, or chirpy, or downright burpy. All together though, their song sounds entirely different. A sonorous, constant, nocturnal klangfarben kaleidescope of aural happiness.
Sing on, little froggies. Sing on.

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