Re: OT: Spanish translation needed

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From: "Hanuman Zhang" <zhang@...>

> on 12/30/06 7:31 PM, Sally Caves at scaves@FRONTIERNET.NET wrote:
>> Hanuman would be better off with an on-line Spanish dictionary...
>
> Mayhaps, but oooooh so labour-intensive that it would make me go
> cross-eyed.
True, but Hanuman, you can't really expect anyone here to undertake such a
long translation just because you ask. We'd go cross-eyed, too. This is YOUR
project. If you want to avoid the "labour-intensive" work of translating
something for your own purposes, then it's best to pay a translator (or get
an altruistic Spanish-speaking friend!).  I started on the Electro-Acoustic
Music of Spain for you, and then saw there was a sizeable essay on Borges,
infinity, etc.  Maybe someone has already done this favor for you off-line.
If so, that's a labor of love! It's a task even for those gifted in Spanish,
which I am not... terribly.

The article (by whom?) looks as though it's laden with postmodern jargon, so
even translated it needs translation.

"Berenguer,
Guitarist and Composer
The "Orchestra of Chaos"
President of the Association of Electro-acoustic Music of Spain.
...
Mental/Central/Periphery is a production in which the Orchestra of Chaos
presently operates. In the fundamental development of this project are the
concepts of meme, gene, virus, thought, genetic coding, transcription,
parasitism, information, automation, and duplication.[???]  In its
interactive installation which uses sophisticated technology, M/C/P is
conceived of as an artificial medium that projects, like the interaction
between interpreters, an original musical form such that we can often call
it an intermedial concert." (intermediality=the interaction of different
media. Meme: see Richard Dawkins' "The Selfish Gene."  It has a range of
difficult, trendy meanings, now.)

As for Borges: desatinado means "senseless," but desatinar means to expel
something from one's mind and memory, I guess to make it vacuous; so a
desatinador should mean that which empties or confuses thought: such as when
we think of infinity.

"There is a concept that is the ruination and confusion of all other things:
I am not speaking of evil, whose limited empire is ethics; I am speaking of
infinity."

"The death of history, art, and God was announced in the last century
(nineteenth). The specific conditions in which this should be produced were
not foreseen in detail, but a good part of western thought--Rudolf Clausius
made known the nearly definitive form of the second principle of
thermodynamics in 1865--already accepted the inexorable tendency towards
disorder in all systems." (I imagine he's talking here about chaos theory,
which ties in with Berenguer's concept of music).

Jesus, there are six pages of single-spaced text!! That's as far as I go.
Good luck.

Sally

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