Bard spotting on Bluesky 04 November 2024

Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):

"Wild Signals", the 'conversation' piece from Close Encounters of the Third Kind, doesn't just sound like an exchange — it's literally a protocol negotiation using a musical conlang, SolReSol, formatted as a modem handshake — complete with a clock signal.

Williams turned a modem scream into music.

jamelle (@jamellebouie.net):

if you have disney+ i highly recommend the documentary/retrospective on john williams. just a nice, pleasant thing to watch. and you'll remember that williams basically created the soundtrack to modern hollywood

Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):

The famous sequence, ''Si-Do-La Laaa Miii''?

"Si-Do-La" is (''Progress, Progressive'') in SolReSol & time-doubled "La" (time-doubled to disambiguate it as the standalone word) would be the Present Participle, time-doubled "Mi" indicating Future. Progress-Now-Future - "Go Ahead".

Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):

This might be dismissed as coincidence, except Williams has the mothership respond to that invitation with "FaSol" — which is "Here" in SolReSol. Contextually and ontologically appropriate. It then uses "SolSolSolSol" — which means (in context), "HERE".

They're negotiating time & bandwidth domains.

Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):

He wrote this in production in 1976 & 1977,

BEFORE THE FIRST MODEM FOR HOME COMPUTERS HIT THE MARKET

Modem handshakes were not by any means cultural touchstones and common knowledge at the time.