CODES, CODES, CODES.

Morse Code.  Lines and dots with sounds.
Computer codes.  More than lines and dots!
Alan Turing's code.  Algorithm and computation.  Clear defined process.
Smoke signals.  Space between smoke bursts.  Timed and analyzed with shared meaning.
Bar codes.  Scanners and phones required to understand them.  Matrix of patterns, based on Morse Code.
Braille.
Multi-Model processing - Shinsuke Shimojo - Images to sounds for blind people
Sign-language
Body language.
Dance Language
Tap codes - rhythm, pace, pause, syncopation, emphasis, inflection - meaning?  Questions, answers, meaning.  Steps have some reason.
Modern dance codes - New vocab, based on shape, form, objectified, new steps.
National dances from all over the world - Steps with meaning based on work/ritual, artifacts and objects provided purpose to the movement giving it meaning.  Costumes affecting movement qualities, posture, cultural practice based on cultural beliefs.  Spiritual significance.  Meaning as a communication to the 'other'.  The other being multitudinous depending on the individual fitting within a system of beliefs cultural, religious.........
Ballet codes - Vocabulary language constructs, order of words in language providing meaning and ordering of movement expressions.

Laban code - notation based on an architect detail, scientific mindset.

Music notation - styled
Languages - words ordered.

Codes created for a reason.  Codes created to communicate something.
At times of war, suppression, to built communities, to assist others, to connect, to rebel, politically motivated.  Codes to provide answers, certainty.  Codes to implement change.  Ordered, reordered, consecutive, consequential, reversed and rethought and continual.  Codes reshaped to Power or control the mass or empower the individual?








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