I taught piano in the early 70s and noticed some of the best players would struggle with music manuscript. So I started making phonetic drawings of words to illustrate the principles of written music e.g. rising and falling on the page indicating rising and falling pitch.

I ran some workshops and developed an approach to hearing development that recognised the importance of whole-of-body perception of sound. Some of the basic principles are described in articles on hearing development and in Part 2 of the ‘Organic Language’ publication.

As a Christian, I was interested to widen my experience of spirituality and spent many years studying kabbalah, ritual magic and eastern spirituality. I worked as an acupuncturist for some years and to this day remain appalled at how modern society ignores and vilifies the riches of our traditional wisdoms. [Francis Bacon quote]

I worked with computers, (IT), in the 1980s, and specialised in technical writing. Since then I have been interested in the philosophy of documents, and will gradually put up short pieces that will form the ‘system requirements’ for a 21st century document handling system.

The study of language and documents, provides a unique insight into many of humanity's problems. No one fully understands what language is, let alone documents and their effects on our minds and lives. And we live in a world dominated by physicalism, scientism, and a misunderstanding of logic, its powers and limitations.

I hope to put up material on this site that is of use to anyone seeking to unravel the tangle of modern experience.

 

Ian Bruce

Sydney, 1st February 2019