The inability of language to capture the essence of time is a crisis that has been expressed by philosophers starting from St. Augustine to Paul Ricoeur. Appearing on their seminal album, Dark Side of the Moon, Pink Floyd’s Time is a profound artistic attempt which transcends this language barrier by using music to bring the listeners to a more direct confrontation with time; doing so by juxtaposing time as calibrated and as experienced through the music and the lyrics, and by making the reader experience time-based affects such as impatience, expectation, monotony, and such. As a direct function of song, time is experienced as musical time in the song, thereby ensuring that the listener’s confrontation with time is immersive, with lyrics that describe the nature of experienced and calibrated time working synchronously with the music to complete the image. In the context of its release in 1974, the 6:52 minute song was in engagement with the concept of time as well, in that it was among the pioneering ones which redefined radio broadcast time beyond the standard 3 minutes afforded to popular music tracks, with the commercially preferred listener span in mind. The matter of time thus becomes a multi-layered formal engagement in the song, at the level of lyric, recording, music and listening, thereby making possible an image of time that is polished and rounded. These aural, lyrical and production-based concepts will be addressed and expanded upon to show how Pink Floyd’s Time functions as a metanarrative in how it uses and invokes the elements of time to talk about time.

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Pink Floyd's Time：通过形式、歌词和音乐编排探索时间的听觉元叙事

语言无法捕捉时间的本质是一种危机，从圣奥古斯丁到保罗利科的哲学家都表达了这种危机。Pink Floyd's Time 出现在他们开创性的专辑《Dark Side of the Moon》中，是一次深刻的艺术尝试，它超越了语言障碍，用音乐让听众更直接地与时间对抗；这样做的方法是将经过校准的时间和通过音乐和歌词体验到的时间并置，并使读者体验基于时间的影响，例如急躁、期望、单调等。作为歌曲的直接功能，时间在歌曲中被体验为音乐时间，从而保证听者与时间的对抗是身临其境的，歌词描述了经历和校准时间与音乐同步工作以完成图像的性质。在 1974 年发行的背景下，这首 6:52 分钟的歌曲也与时间概念有关，因为它是重新定义无线电广播时间的先驱之一，超出了流行音乐曲目的标准 3 分钟，考虑到商业上首选的听众跨度。因此，时间问题成为歌曲中多层次的正式参与，在歌词、录音、音乐和聆听的层面上，从而使时间的形象变得可能被打磨和圆润。这些听觉、抒情和基于生产的概念将得到解决和扩展，以展示平克·弗洛伊德的时间如何作为一种元叙事，在它如何使用和调用时间元素来谈论时间方面发挥作用。