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On Resonance: Caves, Hooves, Hearts, Harps... and the Birth of Culture

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The Essence of Communication Is Resonance

The body is designed, literally as an instrument. The fleshy mondola of the vocal cords serves to amplify resound and emit reverberate. In two thousand one a house d j named herbert released an album named bodily functions. Music arose first because music allowed us to actually be in harmony with one another,. So we sang, clicked, whooped, bird called choird, drummed, tapped our way through the long years before we began speaking in prose and then finally writing things down. Sung poetry pre dates prose. Sung metre is an actual reflection of a resonant, rhythmic cosmos, which is why sung metre is sacred. The gods are clothed in the poetic metres.

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