Friday, April 8, 2011

Cocteau Twins - A Language Encounters a Voice



"The geno-song is the volume of the speaking and singing voice, the space in which the significations germinate "from within the language and its materiality"; this is a signifying function alien to communication, to representation (of feelings), to expression; it is the culmination (or depth) of production where melody actually works on language--not what it says but the voluptuous pleasure of its signifier-sounds, of its letters: explores how language works and identifies itself with that labor." (Barthes, The Grain 271)

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