¶ Visual Symphony (1)
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Visual Symphony:
"What World Game does have is confrontations… in terms of sounds, words, and languages. When we had the radio, it was only words. People are going to say that in the television there is only an embellishment: the fact that you can see, and nothing more. We can only shout a half mile. Words are in all languages, special languages. But sight is a universal language. A person goes to a horse race in Japan and on TV it’s the same thing. This is not like radio at all. I can see 700 million miles an hour and I can hear only 700 miles an hour. The step-up to sight was a millionfolding.
"The information that TV really gives to people; when there’s a program there the kids are feeling the dancing, and feeling the gravity. And this is informing them in ways that they have no idea of how they are really being informed. And World Game has to work this way.
"You can listen to a symphony, but you can only hear one set of chords at a time. It takes you an hour to wait and hear the whole symphony. In sum total they have only so many notes in "
¶ Citations
- Tape #3, pp.7-8; RBF to W. Wolf, Phila., PA, 15 Jun’74
