Re: Re: about Somei Satoh

dear david,

toru takemitsu itsw wrong !

silence is a sound !

so if he wants to find a "sound as intense as silence" he has just to  
find a "intense silence" and he gets the intence sound also... Best  
regards... vitor rua
P.S.: but as a poem is very good !!!




On 26 Oct 2011, at 08:19, David Badagnani wrote:

> Although I've always pronounced it SO-may SA-toe, the standard  
> rōmaji (romanization) of Somei Satoh's name:  kanji:  佐藤 聰 
> 明 / hiragana:  さとう そうめい is Satō Sōmei.  Like  
> Finnish or Hungarian (and unlike Spanish or Latin), I don't think  
> there are strong accents in Japanese two-syllable words, but the ō  
> vowels are longer so might sound stressed when speaking the name.   
> Sōmei literally means "intelligence."  I'm sure many list members  
> know Japanese much better than I do, though.
>
> On a related note, Toru Takemitsu said “I would like to achieve a  
> sound as intense as silence.”
>
> --
> David Badagnani
> Kent, Ohio
> USA
>
> From: Dionisis Boukouvalas <[email protected]>
> To: Silence <[email protected]>
> Sent: Wednesday, October 26, 2011 2:42 AM
> Subject: [silence] about Somei Satoh
>
> Slightly irrelevant (but check out what Satoh says about silence  
> here: http://www.wix.com/someis/home#!info), but I think someone  
> here might know how to pronounce "Somei Satoh". Are the accents on  
> the o's?
>
>