The same way we use sound to create a language called music-?

Question

-can we use light or Fragrance/odor or flavor or sensation to create a language...a recognizable but abstract organization of various frequencies/ranges...something that WE have given meaning to...like spoken language or music ..patterns that can also create the same range of emotions one experiences from music....how would we make a pattern of taste ...maybe for sensation/touch we can create patterns...even like brail for the blind...... or like tapping out morse code or something......how about a pattern of Fragrances...how about staccato or legato pulses of different degrees of a fragrance...and different fragrances as different timbres....and entire orchestrations...an olfactory extravaganza ..
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what if we had languages for our various senses?? i dont mean just to see things or taste things...i mean we have a documented bunch of patterns that recognize...like the fifth symphony of odors...and we can record and replay these patterns...and say...oh..that piece was made by mr..whatever...can u smell it?? oh...yes...turn up the intensity...

if we created languages for our various senses then do u think people would take the trouble to learn these languages or appreciate them as forms of art??

Answer 1

The point of any language is to communicate with each other--to develop a set of symbols that represent objects and ideas. So I don't think you're crazy at all for wondering that. It is kind of interesting, the idea of tastes and smells as a form of communication. I already consider smells and tastes a form of art. To smell a perfume that is truly a masterpiece (my husband says Chanel No 5), or taste something that is exquisitely made: That's art. Communication is a little trickier, but I don't think it's that out there. Just ask the skunk how well he can communicate with smell. No words needed.

Answer 2

believe me, the cologne industry has this stuff down to a science. the notate smells by chemical makeup and they have shorthand codes for the responses that smells generate.



All you need is to find or create a course in fragrance notation and spread the knowledge.



The notation is already out there.



in my experience there is a correlation between the ability to read and write music and a LACK of creativity. Some creative people can write music but very few people become better composers BY learning notation. The system KILLS creativity rather than fostering it.

Answer 3

Do we not already have languages that are not reliant upon hearing? The examples of sign language for the deaf (using sight), semaphore (using flags to signal from ship-to-ship - sight again), Braille for the blind and the language that was created for Mary Keller (both using the sense of touch). Oh, and not forgetting written language that you used to post the question itself.



Besides these examples wouldn't the sense of smell be too subjective to use as a common language?

Answer 4

Either your battery needs to be replaced because it is running down, or your repeating of the same songs is burning a groove in the drive that stores them. Same thing will happen to a cd if you play one song over and over and it will corrupt a hard drive on a computer.

Answer 5

never before have I seen the term "language" so bastardized.

Answer 6

i agree, with hairhorn.