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Es ist nun genau ein Jahr her , dass uns die namentliche Nennung der im Irakkrieg bzw. in Afghanistan Gefallenen in der “New York Times” auffiel . Seither hat in|ad|ae|qu|at in seinem Feed- Reader sämtliche Meldungen unter dem Titel “NAMES OF THE DEAD” aufbewahrt : Was dort passiert , so der Gedanke , mag durch die Genres von “Erzählung” , “Historiographie”, “Zeugenbericht” oder “Film” vermutlich nur ungenügend dargestellt werden . Das Kontinuum der täglichen - und immer individuellen - Tode manifestiert sich womöglich eindringlicher in den Verzeichnissen der Tageszeitung .

Wenn wir die Liste der entsprechenden Meldungen eines Jahres im Folgenden zitieren , versteht es sich von selbst , dass hierbei die Opfer unter irakischen Militärs , besonders indes unter der Zivilbevölkerung NICHT mitgezählt sind . Auch nicht die Unzahl derer , welche als physisch und psychisch Versehrte nach Hause heimkehrten . Folgeopfer unter den Soldaten und deren Familien . Anderes , was nie in den Rang und in den Rahmen des “Offiziellen” passte .

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EIN JAHR “NAMES OF THE DEAD”

Names of the Dead - Iraq - Tue, Sep 9 2008

The Department of Defense has identified 4,149 American service members who have died since the start of the Iraq war and 580 who have died as a part of Operation Enduring Freedom, which is centered in Afghanistan. It confirmed the deaths of the following Americans on Monday …

Names of the Dead - Iraq - Afghanistan - Sun, Sep 7 2008

The Department of Defense has identified 579 American service members who have died as a part of Operation Enduring Freedom, which is centered in Afghanistan. It confirmed the death of the following American on Sunday …

Names of the Dead - Iraq - Sat, Sep 6 2008

The Department of Defense has identified 4,146 American service members who have died since the start of the Iraq war. It confirmed the death of the following American on Thursday …

Names of the Dead - Afghanistan - Sep 2 2008

The Department of Defense has identified 578 American service members who have died as a part of Operation Enduring Freedom, which is centered in Afghanistan. It confirmed the death of the following American yesterday …

Names of the Dead - Iraq - Sep 2 2008

The Department of Defense has identified 4,146 American service members who have died since the start of the Iraq war.

Names of the Dead - Afghanistan - Aug 27 2008

The Department of Defense has identified 576 American service members who have died as a part of Operation Enduring Freedom, which is centered in Afghanistan. It confirmed the death of the following American yesterday:.

Names of the Dead - Afghanistan - Aug 25 2008

The Department of Defense has identified 575 American service members who have died as a part of Operation Enduring Freedom, which is centered in Afghanistan. It confirmed the death of the following American on Sunday:.

Names of the Dead - Iraq - Afghanistan - Aug 23 2008

The Department of Defense has identified 4,141 American service members who have died since the start of the Iraq war and 574 who have died as a part of Operation Enduring Freedom, which is centered in Afghanistan. It confirmed the deaths of the following Americans on Friday:.

Names of the Dead - Afghanistan - Aug 20 2008

The Department of Defense has identified 4,138 American service members who have died since the start of the Iraq war and 572 who have died as a part of Operation Enduring Freedom, which is centered in Afghanistan. It confirmed the deaths of the following Americans yesterday:.

Names of the Dead - Afghanistan - Aug 18 2008

The Department of Defense has identified 569 American service members who have died as a part of Operation Enduring Freedom, which is centered in Afghanistan. It confirmed the deaths of the following Americans on Monday:.

Names of the Dead - Iraq - Aug 17 2008

The Department of Defense has identified 4,137 American service members who have died since the start of the Iraq war. It confirmed the death of the following American on Sunday:.

Names of the Dead - Iraq - Aug 11 2008

The Department of Defense has identified 4,131 American service members who have died since the start of the Iraq war. It confirmed the death of the following American on Monday:.

Names of the Dead - Iraq - Afghanistan - Aug 10 2008

The Department of Defense has identified 4,130 American service members who have died since the start of the Iraq war and 565 who have died as a part of Operation Enduring Freedom, which is centered in Afghanistan. It confirmed the deaths of the following Americans on Sunday:.

Names of the Dead - Afghanistan - Aug 8 2008

The Department of Defense has identified 564 American service members who have died as a part of Operation Enduring Freedom, which is centered in Afghanistan. It confirmed the death of the following American on Thursday:.

Names of the Dead - Iraq - Aug 6 2008

The Department of Defense has identified 4,128 American service members who have died since the start of the Iraq war. It confirmed the deaths of the following Americans this week:.

4,000 U.S. Combat Deaths, and Just a Handful of Images - Jul 25 2008

Some journalists say the American military is making a growing effort to control graphic war images from Iraq.

Names of the Dead - Iraq - Jul 11 2008

The Department of Defense has identified 4,113 American service members who have died since the start of the Iraq war. It confirmed the deaths of the following Americans on Friday:.

Suicide Rate for Soldiers Rose in ’07 - Afghanistan - May 29 2008

At least 115 soldiers killed themselves in 2007, up from 102 the previous year, the Army said Thursday.

Names of the Dead - Iraq - May 29 2008

The Department of Defense has identified 4,078 American service members who have died since the start of the Iraq war. It confirmed the deaths of the following Americans this week:.

Names of the Dead - Iraq - Apr 10 2008

The Department of Defense has identified 4,020 American service members who have died since the start of the Iraq war. It confirmed the deaths of the following Americans this week:.

Iraqi Deaths Are on the Rise Again During Clashes With Militias - Apr 1 2008

The toll of civilian deaths in the Iraqi capital last month reached its highest point since September 2007.

Names of the Dead - Iraq - Apr 1 2008

The Department of Defense has identified 3,999 American service members who have died since the start of the Iraq war. It confirmed the deaths of the following Americans on Tuesday:.

Names of the Dead - Iraq - Mar 31 2008

The Department of Defense has identified 3,997 American service members who have died since the start of the Iraq war. It confirmed the death of the following American on Monday:.

Names of the Dead - Iraq - Mar 27 2008

The Department of Defense has identified 3,993 American service members who have died since the start of the Iraq war. It confirmed the deaths of the following Americans on Wednesday:.

Letters : Sad Iraq Milestone: 4,000 U.S. Dead - Iraq - Mar 25 2008

U.S. Death Toll in Iraq War Hits 4,000 - Iraq - Mar 24 2008

Names of the Dead - Iraq - Mar 20 2008

The Department of Defense has identified 3,984 American service members who have died since the start of the Iraq war. It confirmed the deaths of the following Americans on Wednesday:.

Names of the Dead - Iraq - Mar 17 2008

The Department of Defense has identified 3,981 American service members who have died since the start of the Iraq war. It confirmed the death of the following American on Monday:.

Names of the Dead - Iraq - Feb 27 2008

The Department of Defense has identified 3,966 American service members who have died since the start of the Iraq war. It confirmed the deaths of the following Americans this week:.

Names of the Dead - Iraq - Feb 25 2008

The Department of Defense has identified 3,961 American service members who have died since the start of the Iraq war. It confirmed the death of the following American on Monday :.

Names of the Dead - Iraq - Feb 3 2008

The Department of Defense has identified 3,936 American service members who have died since the start of the Iraq war. It confirmed the deaths of the following Americans on Sunday:.

Names of the Dead - Iraq - Jan 24 2008

The Department of Defense has identified 3,920 American service members who have died since the start of the Iraq war. It confirmed the death of the following American on Wednesday:.

Names of the Dead - Iraq - Jan 23 2008

The Department of Defense has identified 3,919 American service members who have died since the start of the Iraq war. It confirmed the death of the following American on Wednesday :.

Across America, Deadly Echoes of Foreign Battles - Afghanistan - Jan 13 2008

The Times found 121 cases in which veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan committed a killing in this country, or were charged with one, after their return from war.

Names of the Dead - Iraq - Jan 12 2008

The Department of Defense has identified 3,910 American service members who have died since the start of the Iraq war. It confirmed the deaths of the following Americans on Thursday and Friday:.

Names of the Dead - Iraq - Dec 29 2007

The Department of Defense has identified 3,890 American service members who have died since the start of the Iraq war. It confirmed the deaths of the following Americans yesterday:.

Names of the Dead - Iraq - Dec 23 2007

The Department of Defense has identified 3,885 American service members who have died since the start of the Iraq war. It confirmed the death of the following American on Friday:.

Names of the Dead - Iraq - Dec 5 2007

The Department of Defense has identified 3,874 American service members who have died since the start of the Iraq war. It confirmed the death of the following American yesterday:.

Names of the Dead - Iraq - Nov 25 2007

The Department of Defense has identified 3,869 American service members who have died since the start of the Iraq war. It confirmed the deaths of the following Americans yesterday:.

Names of the Dead - Iraq - Nov 25 2007

The Department of Defense has identified 3,867 American service members who have died since the start of the Iraq war. It confirmed the death of the following American yesterday:.

Names of the Dead - Iraq - Nov 23 2007

The Department of Defense has identified 3,866 American service members who have died since the start of the Iraq war. It confirmed the deaths of the following Americans yesterday:.

Names of the Dead - Iraq - Nov 19 2007

The Department of Defense has identified 3,861 American service members who have died since the start of the Iraq war. It confirmed the deaths of the following Americans yesterday:.

Names of the Dead - Iraq - Nov 18 2007

The Department of Defense has identified 3,859 American service members who have died since the start of the Iraq war. It confirmed the deaths of the following Americans yesterday:.

On a Deadly Day, U.S. Reports Drop in Iraq Attacks - Nov 18 2007

Violence in Iraq last week dipped to its lowest point for any week since January of 2006; but that news came as 22 people were killed in attacks today nationwide.

Names of the Dead - Iraq - Nov 15 2007

The Department of Defense has identified 3,854 American service members who have died since the start of the Iraq war. It confirmed the deaths of the following Americans this week::.

2007 Is the Deadliest Year for U.S. in Afghanistan - Afghanistan - Nov 10 2007

An attack in Afghanistan made 2007 the most lethal year for Americans fighting there since the 2001 invasion.

Names of the Dead - Iraq - Nov 7 2007

The Department of Defense has identified 3,846 American service members who have died since the start of the Iraq war. It confirmed the deaths of the following Americans this week:.

Ask Iraq War Veterans a Question - Iraq - Nov 7 2007

The five writers of Home Fires are inviting questions from readers this week.

Names of the Dead - Iraq - Nov 6 2007

The Department of Defense has identified 3,838 American service members who have died since the start of the Iraq war. It confirmed the death of the following American on Monday:.

5 U.S. Soldiers Killed by Bombs in Iraq - Nov 6 2007

Iraqi soldiers discovered 22 bodies in a mass grave in the Lake Tharthar area northwest of Baghdad, the U.S. military said.

22 Bodies Found in Mass Grave in Iraq - Nov 6 2007

Iraqi soldiers discovered 22 bodies in a mass grave in the Lake Tharthar area northwest of Baghdad, the U.S. military said.

Names of the Dead - Iraq - Nov 5 2007

The Department of Defense has identified 3,837 American service members who have died since the start of the Iraq war. It confirmed the deaths of the following Americans yesterday:.

Names of the Dead - Iraq - Nov 4 2007

The Department of Defense has identified 3,836 American service members who have died since the start of the Iraq war. It confirmed the deaths of the following Americans yesterday:.

Names of the Dead - Iraq - Oct 21 2007

The Department of Defense has identified 3,823 American service members who have died since the start of the Iraq war. It confirmed the deaths of the following Americans over the weekend:.

Names of the Dead - Iraq - Oct 19 2007

The Department of Defense has identified 3,820 American service members who have died since the start of the Iraq war. It confirmed the death of the following American yesterday:.

Names of the Dead - Iraq - Oct 15 2007

The Department of Defense has identified 3,818 American service members who have died since the start of the Iraq war. It confirmed the deaths of the following Americans yesterday:.

Names of the Dead - Iraq - Oct 11 2007

The Department of Defense has identified 3,809 American service members who have died since the start of the Iraq war. It confirmed the death of the following American yesterday:.

Names of the Dead - Iraq - Oct 10 2007

The Department of Defense has identified 3,808 American service members who have died since the start of the Iraq war. It confirmed the death of the following American on Tuesday:.

Names of the Dead - Iraq - Oct 7 2007

The Department of Defense has identified 3,803 American service members who have died since the start of the Iraq war. It confirmed the deaths of the following Americans yesterday:.

Names of the Dead - Iraq - Sep 26 2007

The Department of Defense has identified 3,792 American service members who have died since the start of the Iraq war. It confirmed the deaths of the following Americans yesterday:.

Names of the Dead - Iraq - Sep 25 2007

The Department of Defense has identified 3,790 American service members who have died since the start of the Iraq war. It confirmed the death of the following American on Monday:.

Names of the Dead - Iraq - Sep 23 2007

The Department of Defense has identified 3,787 American service members who have died since the start of the Iraq war. It confirmed the deaths of the following Americans yesterday:.

Names of the Dead - Iraq - Sep 22 2007

The Department of Defense has identified 3,783 American service members who have died since the start of the Iraq war. It confirmed the death of the following American yesterday:.

Names of the Dead - Iraq - Sep 20 2007

The Department of Defense has identified 3,782 American service members who have died since the start of the Iraq war. It confirmed the deaths of the following Americans yesterday:.

Names of the Dead - Iraq - Sep 18 2007

The Department of Defense has identified 3,776 American service members who have died since the start of the Iraq war. It confirmed the death of the following American yesterday:.

Names of the Dead - Iraq - Sep 13 2007

The Department of Defense has identified 3,768 American service members who have died since the start of the Iraq war. It confirmed the deaths of the following Americans this week:.

Names of the Dead - Iraq - Sep 11 2007

The Department of Defense has identified 3,755 American service members who have died since the start of the Iraq war. It confirmed the death of the following American yesterday:.

Names of the Dead - Iraq - Sep 10 2007

The Department of Defense has identified 3,754 American service members who have died since the start of the Iraq war. It confirmed the deaths of the following Americans recently:.

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Out now : Oliver Sacks “Musicophilia” auf Deutsch - “Der einarmige Pianist”

Tags: All-Things-Considered, Amusia, Anekdote, clinical-tales, Der-einarmige-Pianist---Über-Musik-und-das-Gehirn, Discover, Dysmusie, From-L.A.-With-Love, head-music, Interview, iPod, Musicophilia, Musiktherapie, neuroscience, New-York-Times, NPR, Oliver-Sacks, Parkinson, Radiolab, Rowohlt, singing-cure, Surround-Sound, Synästhesie, Wired, XLR8R.

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OUT NOW

listen papunet net Seit Sommer 2007 kam man auf englischsprachigen Seiten für Wissenschaft , Musik und Hirnforschung kaum an den Chroniken eines angekündigten Fach- , Sach- und Lesebuchs vorbei : Die Ankündigung von Oliver Sacks‘ neuem Werk über die Auswirkungen von Musik auf Differenzierungsleistungen im Gehirn , Musiktherapie bei neurologischen Krankheiten wie Parkinson weckte hohe Erwartungen in Fach- und Laienkreisen . Als “Musicophilia - Tales of Music and the Brain” endlich am 16. Oktober bei Alfred A. Knopf erschien , gab es für die Coverage auf allen Kanälen kein Halten mehr .

Sacks’ Kunst , neurologische Beobachtungen populär fasslich in überschaubare Fallgeschichten zu präsentieren , hat ihm seit “Awakenings” ( 1973 ) | “Awakenings : Zeit des Erwachens ( 1990 ) , “A Leg to Stand On” ( 1984 ) | Der Tag, an dem mein Bein fortging ( 1989 ) oder “The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat” ( 1985 ) | “Der Mann , der seine Frau mit einem Hut verwechselte” ( 1990 ) das Interesse breiter Publikumskreise eingebracht. .

Der Rowohlt- Verlag hatte die deutsche Übersetzung unter dem Titel “Der einarmige Pianist - Über Musik und das Gehirn” ursprünglich für März angekündigt . Dann kam ein Brief , die Publikation des Buches müsse auf unbestimmte Zeit verschoben werden . Ein weiteres Schreiben des ( mit seinem 100- Jahr- Programm offenbar mehr als ausgelasteten ) Verlags kündigte das Erscheinen des Buches schliesslich doch schon für Mai d. J. an : Und da liegt er nun frisch auf dem Tisch , gestern ausgepackt , mit Erscheinungsdatum “1. Juni 2008″ im Impressum .

Aus diesem Anlass geben wir in|ad|ae|qu|at ein paar Proben aus der angloamerikanischen Rezeption , sowie Links zu Interviews und Textauszügen . |||

MUSIK IM IPOD- ZEIALTER

listen papunet net Bereits das Titelbild der englischsprachigen Ausgabe , welches den Autor bei sichtlichem Genusshören mit Kopfhörern zeigt ( die Umschlaggestaltung bei Rowohlt gibt sich abstrakt- symbolistisch ) gibt dem Magazin “Slate” zu denken :

In an era when music has become “head music,” delivered through iPod earbuds with the steady efficiency of an IV drip, it was inevitable that music, like language, religion, sex, and politics, would be given the popular-neuroscience treatment

“Wired” liefert neben einem Interview sogleich die eine autorisierte , technisch fiktive “Sacks’ IPod Playlist” : Er habe keinen iPod , so der Autor , “I’m too low-tech” . Hätte er ein solches Gerät , wären ausschliesslich Stücke aus dem klassischen Repertoire darauf gespeichert . Offenbar kann man Lieblingslisten im zeitgeistigen Medium nicht mehr anders codieren als durch ein modisches Gadget , dessen visuelles und begriffliches Interface .

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Sacks :

It is almost impossible to list my ten or twenty favorite pieces of music, because I have an omnivorous love of all classical music. In addition, I often develop a passion for a particular piece or a particular composer, which may last a month or a year, and then be replaced by a passion for something else. Thus I spent an entire year, 1979, playing Mozart’s Requiem and his Mass in C Minor, over and over. They absorbed me totally, and I did not want to listen to anything else.

Gleichwohl hat es sich die Mühe gemacht , zehn Stücke auszuwählen , von “Chopin’s Fantasy in F Minor, performed by Arthur Rubinstein” bis hin zu “Schubert’s Die Shöne Mullerin , sung by Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau” ( Roland Barthes hätte es beim Stichwort “Fischer-Dieskau” schon den Magen umgedreht ) und “Bach’s Chaconne in D Minor, played by Yehudi Menuhin” . Plus ausführlichen Gründen und Geschichten … der Clou der Sache ist , dass die Playlist auf der “Wired”- Seite tatsächlich funktioniert … |||

NICHTS NEUROLOGISCH NEUES ?

listen papunet net Mit oder ohne Ohrstöpsel : “Slate” fasst den Autor als Neurologen nicht eben mit Samthandschuhen an und gibt sich ein wenig genervt durch die immergleiche Form der Anekdote , “at once creepy and cocktail-party colorful” :

The material has the distinctive Sacks touch: at once earnest, tender, and slightly amused. But the anecdotes about music and the neurological disorders associated with it - which are what the “tales” really amount to - reveal surprisingly little about music or about the brain, other than that the mystery and vitality of music are useful correlatives to the brain’s mystery and vitality. In recounting the circumstances of individual patients, Sacks doesn’t evoke the sound of music or the ways sound takes shape as music in the brain. The case studies become examples of the gap between what happens in our brains and what even our most literate experts can say about it. ( Slate )

Was indes die Passagen über Sacks’ eigene Musikerfahrung ( und die einiger älterer Musicophilen ) anbelangt , konzediert das Magazin immerhin Respekt gegenüber dem Literaten :

A man making his own experiences and those of the people he knows the representatives of the human condition: It sounds like a formula for bad science. And yet the formula for bad science turns out to be the formula for good writing. When he describes his friends, and himself, too, Sacks suddenly writes about music as music, at once a language and a mode of celebration that summons extreme but not unreasonable passions. ( Slate ) |||

FREAK SHOW ?

listen papunet net Auch die “New York Times” benennt Sacks’ erfolgreiches “Strickmuster” als eher emeotional bewegend denn wissenschaftlich aufklärend :

In his earlier collections of clinical tales - most famously in “Awakenings” (1973) and “The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat” (1985) - Sacks presented with compassion, sensitivity and learning what, in coarser hands, might have been freak shows of the mind. The genre could have been an exploitative sideshow: a parade of misfits whose brains have been weirdly affected by disease, trauma, congenital defect or medical treatment. But Sacks is adept at turning neurological narratives into humanly affecting stories, by showing how precariously our worlds are poised on a little biochemistry. ( NYT )

Nach einem ordentlichen Referat einiger “Fallgeschichten” weist der Rezensent auf den Gemeinplatz erfolgreicher Musiktherapie seit den 1940er Jahren hin , dabei in einem hübschen “twist” auf Sigmund Freuds “talking cure” anspielend : “Indeed the benefits of the singing cure are more evident than those of the talking one.”

Was Sacks erzähle , sei stets erstaunlich , bewegend , erweitere letztlich aber kaum die bisherigen wissenschaftlichen Erkenntnisse :

In the end, Sacks’s catalog of oddities sheds little systematic light on the mystery of music. He cannot be blamed for this - the science of music is still in its early days. Readers will probably be grateful that Sacks, unlike Freud, is happy to revel in phenomena that he cannot yet explain. ( NYT ) |||

IM INTERVIEW : ZU POSITIV ?

listen papunet net Im Literaturjournalismus stellt das persönliche Interview bekanntlich die praktikablelste Art und Weise dar , “content” aus erster Quelle zu erhalten , einen “Authentizitätseffekt” unter der Sigle des Exklusiven zu generieren , ohne dabei freilich in die Mühen und Ambivalenzen einer kritischen Bewertung hinabsteigen zu müssen .

Anekdotengespickte Interviews gibt es demnach in “Discover” , “Wired” sowie als Audio- File des herrlichen “Radiolab” @ “National Public Radio” ( NPR ) .

Von “Discover” auf die Kritik angesprochen , seine “Fallgeschichten” würden die realen und tragischen Fälle über Gebühr “sentimentalisieren” und in letztlich positive Erlösungsgeschichten giessen , erklärt sich Sacks wie folgt :

Well, I want to draw attention to it, but it’s there with the negative. In the old-fashioned medical notes, one would write about the HPC, or “history of the present complaint.” The patient comes to a doctor because something is the matter; they have a complaint. And one goes through it with the patient, but one also wants at the same time to remind them of the powers which are preserved and which they can perhaps use and which can mitigate life. My interest is very much in rehabilitation. I won’t say “recovery”. And maybe rehabilitation sounds rather technical, but it’s making the fullest possible life under the circumstances. ( Discover )

Eine übrigens sehr amerikanische Attittüde , keine noch so tragische Geschichte ohne den Appell an das Potential des Individuums enden zu lassen . Was im Sozialdrama “skill” und “Wille” , sollen hier die verborgenen neurologischen Kraftwerke leisten . |||

IM INTERVIEW : DROGEN UND SYNÄSTHESIE

listen papunet net “Wired” interessiert sich selbstredend eher für Aspekte der Popkultur . Zum Beispiel , warum es ( Art Tatum , Joaquín Rodrigo , Blind Willie McTell , Stevie Wonder ) so viele exzellente blinde Musiker gebe .

Sacks antwortet mit einer - wenn wir das in|ad|ae|qu|at richtig einschätzen [ bitte korrigieren ! ] - etwas veralteten Kompensationsthese :

When one is born without a sense or loses it early, one turns to the other senses to construct the richest possible world and identity. People who are born blind seem to develop extraordinary auditory, tactile, and olfactory sensitivities. Absolute pitch [the ability to identify a note without hearing a reference tone] is pretty rare in the general population - maybe 1 in 10.000 have it. In professional musicians it’s 1 in 10. But in those born blind, musicians or not, it’s nearly 1 in 2. A third of all musical savants are blind. You can be blind without being musical, but there is a correlation. ( Wired )

Selbstverständlich lässt sich das Magazin für Bewusstseinserweiterungen aller Art auch das Thema “Drogen und Musik” nicht entgehen . Das Stöckchen dazu hat Sacks in seinem Buch selber geworfen , indem er von Amphetamin- Experimenten aus Studententagen erzählt . Zur Sprache kommt dabei das seit der Décadence beliebte Thema der Synästhesie ( hier : Farbe & Klang ) :

Hume wondered whether one can imagine a color that one has never encountered. One day in 1964, I constructed a sort of pharmacological mountain, and at its peak, I said, “I want to see indigo, now!” As if thrown by a paintbrush, a huge, trembling drop of purest indigo appeared on the wall — the color of heaven. For months after that, I kept looking for that color. It was like the lost chord.

Then I went to a concert at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. In the first half, they played the Monteverdi Vespers, and I was transported. I felt a river of music 400 years long running from Monteverdi’s mind into mine. Wandering around during the interval, I saw some lapis lazuli snuffboxes that were that same wonderful indigo, and I thought, “Good, the color exists in the external world.” But in the second half I got restless, and when I saw the snuffboxes again, they were no longer indigo - they were blue, mauve, pink. I’ve never seen that color since. It took a mountain of amphetamine, mescaline, and cannabis to launch me into that space. But Monteverdi did it too. ( Wired ) |||

IM INTERVIEW : AUDIO @ NPR , VIDEO @ YOUTUBE

listen papunet net Audio- Interviews gibt es ( jetzt wird in|ad|ae|qu|at angehörs seiner Lieblingssendung sentimental ) im legendären NPR- Gesprächsformat “All Things Considered” : Über Sacks’ Hunger nach “human’s stories” , die massensuggestive Macht der Musik ( Beispiel : The Greatful Dead ) , Parkinson- Patienten und den physiologisch erkennbaren Unterschied ziwschen den Hirnen von Musikern und amusikalisch lebenden Menschen .

Ähnliche Resultate hatte der von uns vor über einem Jahr referierte Artikel über Feldenkrais , Motorik und Hirnstruktur nachgewiesen .

Den Bericht über die Wirkung von Musik auf Parkinson- Patienten gibt es übrigens auch als Video @ YouTube , desgleichen ein Video über Amusia ( Amusie , Dysmusie oder Dysmusia ist die Unfähigkeit , trotz intakter Sinnesorgane Tonfolgen zu erkennen und diese vokal oder instrumental wiederzugeben ) . |||

SCHÖNES FEATURE ÜBERS HÖREN UND ANDERE PHANTOME

listen papunet net Eine herrliche Ausgabe des “Radiolab” ( NPR ) lässt Oliver Sacks im Gespräch nicht seine bekannte Buch- PR abspulen , sondern befragt den Autor nach zum Thema der physischen und psychischen Verortung ( “Were am I ?” , MP3 ) , beziehungsweise nach “bonds between brain and body” . Schönes Feature übers Hören , Fühlen , Phantomschmerzen und Orientierung ( bis hin zu William James ) . Auch für Surround- Sound- Praktiker von Interesse ! |||

VORABDRUCKE

Auf der NPR- Seite ist die auch im New Yorker vorabgedruckte Episode “A Bolt from the Blue : Sudden Musicophilia” ) zu lesen , im “New Yorker” ist auch der Abschnitt über “Music and amnesia” einzusehen . |||

KLANGAPPARAT

In diesem Kontext steht ein Klangapparat natürlich unter enormem Leistungsdruck . Doch dieser lässt sich davon nicht weiter irritieren und fährt mit den Städteportraits des Magazins XLR8R ( sprich : “accelerator” ) fort : “From L.A. With Love” mag da absolut hörenswertes Beispiel pop- kultureller Ver- Ortung das Mass der “Musicophilia” voll zu machen . CLICK LINK TO SEE PLALIST AND LISTEN TO STREAM . |||

LINKS

Oliver Sacks | Wiki | home
Musicophilia Home
Oliver Sacks : “Der einarmige Pianist - Über Musik und das Gehirn , Deutsch von Hainer Kober, Rowohlt 2007
Oliver Sacks : Sacks’ IPod Playlist ( Wired , 15. 10. 2007 )
Paul Elie : The Music Man . What neuroscience can’t tell us about music ( Slate , 8. 10. 2007 )
Anthony Gottlieb : Take Five, and Call Me ( NYT , 28. 10. 2008 )
Interview , Susan Kruglinski : Your Brain on Music , Magnets, and Meth - No one has seen oddities of the mind quite like Oliver Sacks has ( Discover , 1, 1, 2008 )
Interview , Steve Silberman : Oliver Sacks on Earworms , Stevie Wonder and the View From Mescaline Mountain ( Wired , 15. 10. 2007 )
Audio | Interview , Andrea Seabrook : Via “Musicophilia” , Sacks Studies Music and the Brain ( All Things Considered , NPR , 21. 10. 2007 )
Audio | Feature : Where Am I ? [ Oliver Sacks on bonds between body and brain ] ( Radiolab , NPR , 9. 10. 2007 ) ( MP3)
Video : Oliver Sacks - Musicophilia - Music Therapy and Parkinson’s ( YouTube )
Video : Oliver Sacks - Musicophilia - Amusia ( YouTube )
Videos
Excerpt : Oliver Sacks : “A Bolt from the Blue : Sudden Musicophilia” ( NPR , 21. 10. 2007 + The New Yorker , 23. 7. 2007 )
Excerpt : Oliver Sacks : The Abyss - Music and amnesia ( The New Yorker , 24. 9. 2007 ) |||

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I SOTYPE | A Year in Iraq

Tags: 31-Days-in-Iraq-[-2006-], A-Year-in-Iraq-[-2007-], Adriana-Lins-de-Albuquerque, Alicia-Cheng, Bildpädagogik, Bildstatistik, Coalition-Casualty-Count, Codieren-Decodieren, Dusty, Frank-Hartmann, Infograph, ISOYPE, netlabel, New-York-Times, Otto-Neurath, Schaubild, Schautafel, Symbol.

||| ISOYPE - INFOGRAPH | A YEAR IN IRAQ ( 2007 ) | DREI BLICKE ? | WhERE ARE THE WOMEN ? | KLANGAPPARAT | LINKS

ISOYPE - INFOGRAPH

infograph A Year in Iraq deaths NYT 08 01 06 Alicia Cheng icon Zeitgeschehen vergegenwärtigen : Die - vor einigen Tagen an dieser Stelle ausführlich vorgestellte - Bildstatistik ( ISOTYPE ) des Wiener Ökomomen und Philosophen Otto Neurath war während der 20er Jahre im Wien der sozialen Misstände , der Nachkriegstuberkulose und eines republikanisch- kommunalen Wohlfahrtsgedankenens entwickelt worden . Zentraler Punkt dabei war die awareness- Bildung des “Manns von der Strasse” , der - etwa via Neuraths Schautafeln , seine eigene Situation im Kontext statistischer Seienesgleichen erkennen mochte . |||

A YEAR IN IRAQ ( 2007 )

infograph A Year in Iraq deaths NYT 08 01 06 Alicia Cheng icon Am Montag veröffentliche die New York Times als Op- Ed ein solches Schaubild - A YEAR IN IRAQ - , dessen Schöpferin , die Designerin ALICIA CHENG , sich offensichtlich an Neuraths Modell inspirierte . Mit Einschränkungen , wie später zu zeigen sein wird .

The chart below — compiled from data provided by the American and Iraqi governments and news media organizations (the independent Coalition Casualty Count in particular) — gives information on the type and location of each attack responsible for the 2,592 recorded deaths among American and other coalition troops, Iraqi security forces and members of the peshmerga militias controlled by the Kurdish government. |||

[ infograph by Alicia Cheng @ NYT , click picture to enlarge ]

Im Detail stellen sich die “Figuren” sowie die ihnen “eingeschrieben” Attribute wie folgt dar [ click picture to enlarge ] :

Die oben ( euphemistisch ) so genannten “Attribute” schlüsselt die Legende rechts unten auf :

infograph A Year in Iraq deaths NYT 08 01 06 Alicia Cheng detail 02

DREI BLICKE ?

infograph A Year in Iraq deaths NYT 08 01 06 Alicia Cheng icon Nun läge es am Betrachter , sich daran zu machen , Figurengruppe für Figurengruppe , Todesart für Todesart , zuzuordnen und aufzuschlüsseln . Jedem Einzelzeichen also quasi zu entziffern ( sic ) , dabei zugleich aber auch nicht den Blick aufs enorme Ganze nicht zu verlieren .

Zwei Dinge fallen auf : Zum einen überschreitet Chengs Schaubild mit seiner nicht unerheblichen Komplexität die von Otto Neurath als best practice empfohlene Anwendung von selbsterklärenden Zeichen . Laut “Wiener Bildstatistik” bräuchte das Verständnis einer solchen Schautafeln nicht mehr als “drei Blicke” . Neurath :

Ein Bild, das nach den Regeln der Wiener Methode hergestellt ist, zeigt auf den ersten Blick das Wichtigste am Gegenstand; offensichtliche Unterschiede müssen sofort ins Auge fallen. Auf den zweiten Blick sollte es möglich sein, die wichtigeren Einzelheiten zu sehen und auf den dritten Blick, was es an Einzelheiten sonst noch geben mag. Ein Bild, das beim vierten und fünften Blick noch weitere Informationen gibt, ist, vom Standpunkt der Wiener Schule, als pädagogisch ungeeignet zu verwerfen.” ( zitiert nach Frank Hartmann )

Zugegeben : Bei einer in der NYT publizierten Infographik wird man nicht ( mehr ) von den Prämissen proletarischer Didaktik ausgehen dürfen . Gleichwohl erweist die nicht unkomplizierte Dechiffrierung des Sammelbildes , dass auch der präsumptive akademische Leser an Kompexitätsgrenzen stösst . |||

WhERE ARE THE WOMEN ?

infograph A Year in Iraq deaths NYT 08 01 06 Alicia Cheng icon Interessant der Vergleich zu jener Graphik , welche zum gleichen Thema und ebenfalls in der NYT publiziert , einen Überblick über die Art , Weise , Herkunft der Opfer in Irak anno 2006 vermittelte . Damals verzichtete man noch auf farbliche Informationen . |||

[ infograph by Alicia Cheng @ NYT ]

infograph 31 days in Iraq 2006 Alicia Cheng NYT 07 02 04 detail

Besonders bemerkenswert : als Symbol für CIVILIANS wählten die beiden Autorinnen : Eine Frau … mit Kleinkind . |||

infograph 31 days in Iraq 2006 Alicia Cheng NYT 07 02 04 legende

KLANGAPPARAT

Obsessives Ausreizen des Monotonen - immerhin perkussiv getriggert - im Wechsel zu Basal- Akkorden , Überlagerungen in Steigerungsdramaturgie . Aber ~~siehe~~ horch : Plötzlich fügen sich die membra disjecta doch zu so etwas wie einem kompakten Musikstück zusammen … um sich freilich gleich wieder in Noise aufzulösen . Definitely something different innerhalb des derzeit freundlich sumperneden Minimal- Einerlei : Sprechend die Namen des spanischen Künstlers Dusty auf dem Netlabel Intoxik , wo seine EP NOCTAMBULATORIO als Relase 027 figuriert . Eventuelle Restfragen werden von der Poetologie der Tracktitel beantwortet . - CLICK TRACKS TO LISTEN : 01 Noctambula ( 6:03 ) | 02. Ambulatorio ( 6:02 ) | 03. Noctambulatorio ( 7:31 ) |||

LINKS

A Year in Iraq [ 2007 ] ( Adriana Lins de Albuquerque and Alicia Cheng , NYT 6. 1. 2008 ) ( via information aesthetics )
31 Days in Iraq [ 2006 ] ( Adriana Lins de Albuquerque and Alicia Cheng , NYT , 4. 2. 2007 ) - Note : The graph ist ot be found HERE . ( via visualcomplexity )
Frank Hartmann : Sprechende Zeichen - Otto Neuraths revolutionäre Methode der Bildpädagogik @ e.journal
In|ad|ae|qu|qt reakted : Video- Backflash III / 07 : DID YOU KNOW ? ( 29. 1.2 2007 ) |||