KCRW - “Feeling of the Day”
from Brain Eno & Beatie Wolfe
Brian Eno and Beatie Wolfe bring you some unique feelings all throughout June on KCRW’s Morning Becomes Eclectic!
2025Tune in as we explore feelings that have words in other languages ... but not in English.
It's an opportunity for you to expand your emotional vocabulary! Every morning in June ’25 on MBE
“Music is about making feelings happen. Some of those feelings are familiar, while others may not be – or may be complex mixtures of several different feelings. There are many beautiful words for such feelings in other languages and cultures - words that don’t exist in English. By giving a feeling a name, we make that feeling more likely to be felt, more tangible. Art is able to trigger feelings, or feeling mixtures, that we’ve never quite felt before. In this way, a piece of Art can become the ‘mother’ for a type of feeling, and a place you can go to find and re-experience that feeling.
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Some of the feelings we found ourselves working with were these...
Ailyak (Bulgarian)… going slow, enjoying the process
Commuovere (Italian)… the experience of being moved
Dor (Romanian)… longing or belonging
Duende (Spanish)… getting the shivers
Fèath (Gaelic)… stillness, peace
Gezelligheid (Dutch)… warm intimacy
Ilinx (French)... strange excitement from play
Jijivisha (Sanskrit)… life lived fully
Liget (Filipino)… fiery energy, life spark
Merak (Serbian)… at one with the Universe
Meraki (Greek)… to pour yourself into something
Mono no aware (Japanese)… appreciation of life's transience
Onsra (Boro)… the anticipation of losing love
Pronoia (Greek)... the opposite of paranoia
Sisu (Finnish)… determination, grit
Torschlusspanik (German)… fear of time running out
Ya’aburnee (Arabic)… not wanting to live in a world without someone
