Tips of the sung

Samuel Brzeski

 

 

Tips of the sung is from Samuel Brzeski’s collection of interdisciplinary texts and performance scores, published by Lydgalleriet and Vibrational Semantics in 2024.

Tips of the sung is a performance script on the multiplicities of meaning that exist within speech errors, more commonly known as slips of the tongue. The text is composed in line with a Lacanian sense of lalangue—the ur-language that sits on top of meaning—of words that make more sound than sense, and of rhythmicity and vibration given primacy over semantics.

 

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now quite under undone in the patterns through moving in misrecognition being the placement of action away from misdirection or other forms of dislocation in minor distraction will continue the sentence the sentence being the construction of action in form of the grammar the hammer the unsightly rip on the tip of the bung and the sing as in song and he meant it the way in which in the act of the character created prostrated malnourished and more of a statement less kind of an action here he is here he is doing it right it is right in his character he is doing it right more than is wrong in the tight-headed formation a nation on panic and question time partner a parents of order and menu and knitting for fun and a whip on the run he is running at 5am running the 5am run club he is running it good and the club is in season he means it in season the sentence a grammar a big load of trouble will get you in fast like the last of the lock-ins aggressively silenced with untimely violence and running and running and first legs and running its fast and its running on time and we’re running he’s running they’re running in fast on the first leg in running on time he is running on time in the running and run for his 5am runs and he says and he runs out he says that the tip of the tongue is as much of a song as the things we say some even though it is wrong on his 5am runs he is thinking of all that he said that was wrong the mistakes in tone and the slips of the tongue and songs that were wrong and the verbs that were wrong and the statements were wrong and the standpoints were wrong the phonemes were wrong and the morphemes were wrong and the units were wrong and the vowels all were wrong and consonants wrong and fricatives wrong and nasals were wrong and plosives were wrong and he says so much wrong and in finding the meaning the meaning of saying the opening up of a rip in the skein of the surface in speaking intention be met with the mistake of being in the slip of the tongue in the right for a wrong or a wrong for another place of discussion without dissolution of meaning or focus upon the horizon of slips of the tongue that is rights for the wrong mistaken of being what it is said to have meant to be opened can more be delivered in gaps of omission once giving permission for rites that are wrong in the slips and the dips and the riffs on the side not quite explanation will do without reasoning too much for pressure in finding out meanings and hidden solutions within what is said that was not meant to be said that can nevertheless be said and what more it is said but there are several types of slips of the tongue and by slips of the tongue I mean what is said wrong in error or mistaken in forms of translation or speaking comprehension away from intention may come forth from ignorance of what is a word or a correct word or the meaning of a word used in error in one situation when it should not be used is relevant for another situation the sound of the word sounding somewhat like the word and the rhyme of the word sounding somewhat like the word and the rhythm of the word sounding somewhat like the word the intended word but is not the word the intended word it is another word it breaks concentration interferes with cognition often capricious with mirth and in whimsical ridiculous apprehension defying attention away from recognition sounding out what is wrong and the sing as in song on the slip of the long and the tip of the tongue a mistake of a word that is assigned to an ignorance of words that are similar in rhythm in rhyme but not of in reason in sound out of sense out of runs out of gone out of what it is meant by this mistaken decision a lexical selection meant for another thing that was said that was not meant to be said and yet still is said

 

for example dance a flamingo in place of flamenco

or for example illiterate him from your memory 

in place of obliterate

or for example the very pineapple of politeness 

in place of pinnacle

or for example I was putrefied with astonishment

in place of petrified

or for example he is amphibious

in place of ambidextrous

or for example fragrantly violated

in place of flagrantly violated

or for example we are all human beans

in place of human beings

or for example to nip it in the butt

in place of in the bud

or for example to all intensive purposes

in place of intents and purposes

or for example a blessing in the skies

in place of disguise

or for example the use of erotic 

in place of erratic

or for example the use of preposterous

in place of prosperous

or for example the use of dramastically

in place of drastically

or for example the use of comprehended

in place of apprehended

or for example the use of odorous

in place of odious

 

the being the errors of ignorance of thinking a thing or a saying or cliché or idiom or platitude or stock phrase or proverb or truism or trope or trite phrase that has been repeated that will be repeated that shall be repeated in excess of language in truth or in error in over in over in sound or in sense or another meaning for what it is wrong but if its slip of the tongues that are meant to have sung then perhaps it is more means to another form of expression without resolution or leading discussion away from intention that sits on the surface instead going under to subconscious wanderings exposing the meanings the feelings the peevings that drive from another place of distraction expose what is under the drives and the drives and the unconscious thoughts and the unconscious desires the desires and the drives the desires and the drives and the drives and desires the hidden things feelings the hidden things wishing the hidden things thinking the hidden conflicting aware of another state of distraction availed in a moment a slip of the tongue exposes the rung on the step of the ladder leading to another form of expression without resolution an opening up to a field of new matter an unconscious expression for conscious awareness a peeping the head just above in the water the slowly revealing the teething the feeling in what is said wrong in slips of the tongue what is meant to be wrong or another sense of a meaning or purpose a deeper dynamic exposed in a myriad passion or bored exaltation perhaps in expression of names or intention of what it is wanted desires and the drives and desires and the drives but not dwelling on that which is successively subjective away from abstraction and into specifics of conditions analysis the passion the feeling the other forms of slips of the tongue of dips of the sung of rights for the wrong not made in error of ignorance or subtext or underplayed meaning but rather in error in construction of sentences words of the words and the words flowing forth from the words in cerebral production the chain of construction the first type of being of such slips of the tongue of the rights that are wrong the selection error in which there’s a problem in retrieving the word the word from the lexicon the selection from the lexicon can be in error may involve substitution one word for another word that can get in the way can obstruct what is said can be here to say more than is meant than the original projection the selection error could be a clean one a word for a word for a word for a word in a phonologically based mistake of a choice a switch or a swap that is seen for the reasoning out of solutions to minor ablutions the slips and the dips and the riffs of the tongue and the rights for the wrongs will come within reason and leave without meaning and some of what’s seen in the errors of choice and the words for the words for the words for the words are straightforward substitutions of words that are similar in sound or expression

 

as in castanets for clarinets 

or as in life for wife 

or as in fashion for passion 

or as in pear for square 

or as in talk for walk 

or as in peach for speech 

or as in hold for old 

or as in commuter for computer 

or as in inclination for indication 

or as in output for outfit 

or as in immortal for immoral 

or as in tap for tab 

or as in evaporate for evaluate 

or as in here for there 

or as in vowels for values 

or as in fugue for flute 

or as in conquest for contest 

or as in dissent for consent 

 

and in addition to the forms of the slips of the tongue of the tips of the sun of the speech errors of mistakes of lexical selection there are other types of slips of the tongue that are also mistakes of selection that result in a blending of usually two lexical items lexical items that would mean words to form a singular unit that may not exist which is then recited then recited the recited being a blend of two items that have been recalled the recalled items blending to create a new lexical item to add to the archive of slips of the tongue of grips of the wrong 

 

such as perple being of person and people 

or such as stummy being of stomach and tummy 

or such as dreeze being of draft and breeze 

or such as maistly being of mainly and mostly 

or such as lection being of lecture and lesson 

or such as universary being of university and nursery 

or such as momentaneous being of momentary and instantaneous 

or such as popollution being of population and pollution 

or such as herrible being of terrible and horrible 

or such as boast being of best and most 

or such as everybun being of everybody and everyone 

or such as hegraines being of headaches and migraines 

or such as smaze being of smoke and haze 

or such as flustrated being of flustered and frustrated 

or such as excape being of exit and escape 

or such as complify being of complicate and simplify 

 

and the blends in the blends and the blends in the blends with the blends it is mostly that the beginnings and endings of words in the blends are correct in the blends as beginnings and endings have been known to be important to be important in many situations the beginnings and endings of the blends they are important in instances such as the retrieval of words and the retrieval of memories and in the recounting of things and in the beginnings and endings in the blends the blends are making new words in the blends that can hold new semantic intuition in the blends those other main form of slips of the tongue of tips of the sung of licks of the gun are errors of assemblage which is one of production in which the lexical item is recalled from the archive with an error in the production of the correct item produced incorrectly in the process of speech production of peach seduction of breached suction those forms of sonic contamination are known as perserverations or anticipations or phonemic transpositions also known as substitutions or such as additions and deletions of units in the perserverations these occur when a sound that is a sound from an utterance from a previous word sneaks and delays into a later word appearing again as a sonic contamination a hanging around a not letting go a refusal to leave but with anticipations a sound arrives early that contamination is straight up reversed it gets there too fast it comes without warning before it is welcome by way of example within the new diction the meaning the teething the breathing the feeling a foreshadow of sound that is yet to come on to the tip of the tongue on the slip of the dones in the time travelling phonemes that are on the run

 

such like hundred dollar dill 

or such like rule of rum

or such like give the goy a gall

or such like black bloxes 

or such like pulled a pantrum 

or such like she can she

or such like the beginning of the burn

or such like I’ve been abay

or such like snitching rules

or such like leading list

or such like vactive verbs

or such like hitch hunt

or such like panticipate

or such like bake my bike 

or such like alsho share

 

and in the other errors of putting together of assembling of words from phonemes and sounds and items and letters the consonants and vowels are errors within words contained within one either a switch or a flip or a miscombination that stays within words that is contained within words that stays in the word in only one word a rearrangement of phonemes the sounds in one word a sound that is substituted switched out in error in a slip of the tongue in a tip of the sung in the right for the wrong and it’s said all for one

 

like avoilable

or like coursety

or like relevation

or like saraha

or like phisolophy

or like revelance

or like uvinersity

or like fenoly

or like dymanics

or like whipser

or like patterkiller

or like ternimus

or like canpakes

or like karpsihord

or like moleding

or like pecuriality

or like annototed

or like shiff

 

and in the other errors of putting together of assembling of words from phonemes and sounds and items and letters the consonants the vowels are feature substitutions of slips of the tongue of rights for the wrong of riffs for the gone of words for another are transpositions of phonemes and units and lexical items that can be exchanged that will be exchanged that can be swapped out for other items the swap it can happen contained in the sentence or from without the sentence a new hint of a sound it can switch in and change a sound it can swap or a letter it can swap or a plosive can swap or a nasal can swap or a fricative can swap or a lateral can swap but a vowel will probably not swap we find safety in our vowels but sometimes vowels swap and then when vowels swap they can sound out

 

just like odd hack

or like bud begs

or like fool the pill

or like pope smike

or like lack oofter

or like greep three

or like boof needle soup

or like vace oicting

or like bit the sheet

or like alternation condation

 

and in the other errors of putting together of assembling of words from phonemes and sounds and items and letters the consonants the vowels are the fricative switches the swaps of fricatives the fricative being a type of consonant made by the friction the friction of breath 

 

the f- 

and the v- 

and the th- 

and the sh– 

and the s- 

and the z- 

and the h- 

 

they are made by the sound of the breath in the narrow opening the throat of the voiced or the voiceless producing a turbulent air flow the fricative sound the sound can be switched on the edge of the sounds on the tip of the tongue so what is said it is wrong

 

just like chee chane

or like furger surgery

or like chints charming

or like chitty prilly

or like cheam creese

or like prest chess

or like vlower fase

or like enchire chapter

 

and in the other errors of putting together of assembling of words from phonemes and sounds and items and letters the consonants the vowels are consonant reversals or substitutions those slips of the tongue of the rights for the wrong of the said as in gone can be a straight up phonemic swap from the first to the second note of expulsion the consonant swap can be a singular letter or cluster the outing of sound from the initial bit of the song as in sing for more gone and the right it is wrong what is meant for not flung from the mouth in error of making containing the same thing the sounds in the sounds that are only just switched and the swapping of sounds can make words or new words or other words or more words that can make all manner of sense or of sound or of not quite a word but a hint of a word or what could be a word what sounds just like a word that we can make a new word with the rhythm of sound and the sense of it all in the sounds and the swaps and the making new phrases and senses and sounds they can be swapped out but the rhythm stays strong but the rhyme it stays strong but the syllables stay strong but the sense it is wrong and the sounds of new sounds can make sense out of sound that’s new sense not quite found within residues of sounds of the words that lay before but new words out of sounds followed sense but more sound and the laying new ground

 

just like heft lemisphere

or just like mell wade

or just like jawfully loined

or just like poppy of caper

or just like moggy barsh

or just like yew nork

or just like hig pair

or just like reap of hubbish

or just like hold card cash

or just like row tope

or just like mindwill

or just like rhine wack

or just like caper plip

or just like flake bruid

or just like peel stedal

or just like sweeter hitch

or just like bop a dromb

or just like foon speeding

or just like slinly thiced

or just like clamage dame

or just like coat thrutting

or just like fleaky squoor

or just like tritty prees

or just like sparking pace

or just like smart stoking

or just like rye droad

or just like flatal faws

or nice cream

or arty panimal

or bad salad

or birty dirds

or bunch luffet

or chide fricken

or bork chops

or doggy fray

or frest bend

or poobarb rye

or sark died

or sonnies thoos

or tot hee

or welling spurds

or wise prinning

or gold water

or yank through

or beese churger

or harden goes

or pellow yaint

or laffic trite

or sitchen kink

or brooth tush

or bool scus

or funslower

or slizza pice

or chot hocolate

or shunning ruse

or teach bowl

or brandwich said

or pwimming sool

or thovie meater

or rennis tacket

or jaffic tram

or cice yube

or bee trance

or cola roaster

or blightning lolt

or sharden govvel

or shilk make

or rump joke

or papple eye

or fird beeder

or taplop

or slayground pride

or wandy crapper

or gimming swoggles

or bicnic pasket

or birth sword

or biking hoots

or moffee cug

or pirthday barty

or bore dell

or fife and nork

or palt and sepper

or chish and fips

or eacon and begs

or lock and roll

or kugs and hisses

or bice and reans

or ricken and chice

or sup and chaucer

or cot and hold

or dope and hespair

or wack and blite

or wire and forter

or sappy and had

or reft and light

or clopen and owned

or dife and leath

or hove and late

or dret and wy

or shun and sade

or fart and stinish

or dight and lark

or goy and birl

or shot and picey

or craugh and ligh

or ear and manxiety

or dread and gutter

or glove and defection

or rumble and drawn

or tire and frimstone

or grud and daughter

or hurling and fisting

or hental melth

or dood misorder

or suppression dymptoms

or scoping kills

or siagdosis

or trasculine maits

or becho mahavior

or malpha pale

or puscular mystique

or moxic tasculinity

or pale mivilege

or demanly mineer

or bale monding

or abominant dehaviour

or stench of caricature

or flood on boils

or sexical delection

or felf ware

or brie durst

or pray deen

or pelf gov

or rainy fituals

or yove nor gelf

or pest win guess one

or mare platters

or ionise broods

or gadesh replete

or tee blime

or fleeth pite

or cake fair

or gaily ghost

or troo are furthy

or flake past

or geep go cast

or foant pluck cap

or cum on vows

or reap it phoney

or rain pength

or grate fran pains

or flee nor jam

or caging lyre

or breach my foals

or wandle trout

or blechted wun get dum