this experience will always leave me wondering about how others feel or what they hear when they listen. I can't put myself in the shoes of someone who is bilingual or even what Chinese speakers are experiencing #hwa4 #whatlisteningmakes

language and then from there tried to predict what common sound would follow-up next. It was around 25% into my second playthrough when I questioned that perhaps this was me defining fluency as a subjective perception. Maybe when we hear foreign speakers of English speak #hwa4 #whatlisteningmakes

there was so much that made sense to me and then something would happen that would totally throw me off. once I had wandered too many times i just stopped trying to understand or decode anything and just listened #hwa4 #whatlisteningmakes

this showed how layered and interesting auditory experiences can be. this opened my eyes in regards to sme2 and it helps me see the potential impact. not only was the entire experience unique and captivating but it spoke to so many different kinds of people #hwa4 #whatlisteningmakes

After listening to the soundscape, I would overall say that it acted on me by making me realize how fluency can be subjective (which I elaborated on in my previous post). I say this because I often tried to associate any familiar sounds from this piece with the English #hwa4 #whatlisteningmakes

A question it left behind is that how does someone create a way to understand a language that’s so different and it still works? It shows a lot of creativity from Stalling and the performers.

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The whole yingelishi experience absolutely captivated every brain function available, yet simultaneously i had moments where i completely zoned out. This sonic journey was not always easy to navigate and sometimes things got weird or confusing but things still made sense #hwa4 #whatlisteningmakes

Looking at the English side, I felt like a speaker. Looking at the Chinese side, I felt like a stranger. I wish i could understand the Chinese part so I would be able to figure out which side comes first to a person who knows both the languages.

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It changed how I think about translation. I always thought translating meant getting the meaning right, learning in a different way. Here, the feeling is what gets carried across to the listeners, and meaning comes second. Which is unlike anything I have seen before.

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The sadness and calm landed in me more than the words did. Even when I understood the English, the feeling was kind of stronger. So I felt it before I stopped to read the English side.

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Yingelishi did not act on me through meaning, it acted through sound. At first I kept trying to understand every line, but once the somewhat modern singing took over at the 10 minute mark, I stopped decoding and just listened.

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Ultimately I found that even though there are some lacks of structure in some ways whether that be musical, language, or others it is just a form of disagreement. Something all humans get into oneway or anotherthe sameway we understand each other through the way we express #hwa4 #whatlisteningmakes

A moment when I stopped trying to understand happened quite literally when I stopped reading the words on the screen and closed my eyes. Only listening to a combination of the two languages. #hwa4 #whatlisteningmakes

I can't lie sometimes I felt like whatever I was listening to was just a philosophers great idea while greened out because as a musician I have an idea of what I think music is and how it connects with each thing and that also was put into question just like language #hwa4 #whatlisteningmakes

I was trying to make sense of the two very different styles coming at me all at once and trying to deconstruct them all but it came to a point where I asked the question "Why?". Why try and look at them as two indistinct constructs merging as opposed to expression #hwa4 #whatlisteningmakes

But yingelishi really made me look at my perspective of language first hand by placing me right where the combination of english and mandarin are taking place. First it gave me a little impression of what it could looklike blending them together but I still wasn't convinced #hwa4 #whatlisteningmakes

Yingelishi really made me reflect on what things blend together and what really is language. When I think of language I typically think it's designed, sometimes intentionally and unintentionally, to lock different people with different culturesfrom having deep conversations #hwa4 #whatlisteningmakes

Yingleshi acted one me as a listener by evoking curiosity in me. It encouraged me to play around with combinations of listening and reading. Going from reading the poems to only listening, it was a journey. #hwa4 #whatlisteningmakes

#hwa4 #whatlisteningmakes it introduced the idea of using Urdu (my mother tongue) into my SME, because it's not about everyone UNDERSTANDING it, well, they will once I add all of the pieces together, but in the way that evokes emotions rather than something logical to regurgitate

#hwa4 #whatlisteningmakes it distrupted the way i think of media in the sense that nothing actually LOGICALLY has to make sense. it gave me the feelings that left me satistfied, and what more can you really want from any piece of media? i was entertained, i learned things, it was nice overall