Ink Mathematics

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Hi.

I have been planning on posting Jean Cocteau’s “The Human Voice” up here for awhile, but never quite got around to getting it transferred from vinyl to digital until yesterday. Now, this is an interesting listen and can be very rewarding and moving if you get extra close to the speaker and close your eyes.

So, on the back of the record we get a description of what “The Human Voice” actually is:

Jean Cocteau’s one-act drama, The Human Voice, is a stunning work. Requiring neither stage nor setting, it communicates the quiet desperation of a woman. The woman is alone, speaking on the telephone with her lover. She says much, intimates much, and leave much unsaid. We can almost hear, whe she pauses, the voice of the lover, disengaging himself from her life irrevocably.

“Had the piece been played in barren Sahara”, said one critic, “the dunes would have moved closer, to listen.” First written by Cocteau for the Comedie Francaise , and later the basis of an opera by Poulenc, the play has challenged many distinguished actresses…..But it has remained for Ingrid Bergman, one of the most sensitive performers of our time, to interpret the work as a recording, in its purest form, as a drama solely for the voice, without visual props, gestures, or facial expressions. All is conveyed by the human voice alone.

It’s amazing, I swear…Talk to you later. Collin