What you hear depends on how you focus your ear. We're not talking about inventing a new language, but rather inventing new perceptions of existing languages.
Interpretation
Perception shapes our understanding of communication and reality.
Philip Glass asserts that the way we perceive sounds and languages is influenced by our focus and intentions. This idea suggests that rather than creating something entirely new, we can reshape our understanding and interpretation of existing concepts and expressions through a nuanced approach to listening and engaging with them.
In practice
In a discussion on the power of perspective in art.
The problem with listening, of course, is that we don't. There's too much noise going on in our heads, so we never hear anything. The inner conversation simply never stops. It can be our voice or whatever voices we want to supply, but it's a constant racket. In the same way we don't see, and in the same way we don't feel, we don't touch, we don't taste.
A new language requires a new technique. If what you're saying doesn't require a new language, then what you're saying probably isn't new.
I have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy.
Many errors, of a truth, consist merely in the application of the wrong names of things. For if a man says that the lines which are drawn from the centre of the circle to the circumference are not equal, he understands by the circle, at all events for the time, something else than mathematicians understand by it.
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.
The torch of doubt and chaos, this is what the sage steers by.
I am a strong individualist by personal habit, inheritance, and conviction; but it is a mere matter of common sense to recognize that the State, the community, the citizens acting together, can do a number of things better than if they were left to individual action.
She thought about her life and how lost she’d felt for most of it. She thought about the way that all truths she’d been taught to consider valuable invariably conflicted with the world as it was actually lived. How could a person be so utterly lost, yet remain living?
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