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Bamboleo | Taming of The Screw - ACT 3

Turkic Connections: The Search for Meaning in Language

Bamboleo | Taming of The Screw, Verse 3/3

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SONGLINE: Gipsy Kings Flavour - Bamboleo

YER: Southern King Of The Fairies, Not-Quite Bunnings

>>> auditory perception, dictionary indexing, turkic encoded latin, typographic

0082 bamboleo-V3 | 2:14 | 29 May 2021

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A Curious Request: The Quest for a Screw
The account of looking for a good screw in Oberon, but my manner of asking for help wasn't received without innuendo. What else was I supposed to call a screw?! Corkscrew whisperer? Spiralling dreamweaver? Twisting metal dancer? Winding threadkeeper?!

Language Connections: Triangulating Türkiyenli, Kazak, and Azeri
I have a memory of this piece marking the beginning of triangulating Türkiyenli with Kazak and Azeri more solidly at this point. The cross-referencing helped me find alternative through-ways when I couldn't connect with Türkiyenli, because the other two languages frequently offered alternatives that were much closer to home for me, not only in knowing the words and understanding the meanings inherently--| but also the relief that was offered through the production of sound. It provided much-needed respite, but more importantly, the language made more sense to me. I wasn't okay with adopting new words that I didn't fuse with as a child, unless I liked the sound of them and they worked well for my mouth.

Bwahahaha
In light of what happened to me with the screw, it was amusing to see another language opt for «Apparatus Emporium» as a way to describe a hardware store.

Artistic Representaion
motif: ...and they lived, screw, screwdriver

>>> ACT 1 - Bambole |...to the beat of a different drum
>>> ACT 2 - Bamboleo |...coherence & abstractions
>>> ACT 3 - Bamboleo |...at the Apparatus Emporium [YOU ARE HERE]


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