>Interesting. It's unfortunate that you really can't convey how
>awkward, difficult, and time consuming trying to communicate can be
>for someone who stutters in a text format.

Yeah... I ran into that full-force last night while working on a sequence for A Rose at Christmas. There's really only so much you can do in ASCII before it becomes as hard to read as it is to understand hearing it, which, while possibly an effective display of the problem, isn't much fun for the reader. (And it's hard to type, too.)

But I'll muddle on as best I can...

>> a mental feeling rather like the sound a carbonated beverage makes when the
>> last of the foam has gone
>
>This is the single weirdest metaphor I've ever encountered outside the
>works of Terry Pratchett. WTF???
>

Actually, it's a simile, not a metaphor, but... I rather like it. That little shivery sound a soda makes when the fizz breaks is just like the thing my mind does when it finally starts working in the morning... :)

>Descriptions in prose of musical performances have yet to do anything
>for me,

I have a tough time writing them, too, trying to give them that dynamic feeling. I'm reasonably pleased with the way the ones in Wounded Rose came out, though, and it's not as though I could leave them out in this case.

>So, what did the originsl AON do aside from "In Visible Silence"? I
>haven't seen any of their stuff anywhere for years.

Not all that much. Aside from the various compilations (Who's Afraid of the Art of Noise?, The Best of the Art of Noise), they had one other album that I can think of (In No Sense? Nonsense!). They also did the theme for the 1985 Dragnet movie, the version of "Peter Gunn" that was used in Cool World, that one song with Max Headroom...

--G.
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