Cultural is our business 33 Auditory and tactile space have always been interleaved. If tactility is the space of the interval, the interval is the cause of closure and rhythm, or upbeat and downbeat. Acoustic space is totally discontinuous, like touch. It is a sphere without centers or margins, as Professor Botts of the University of Toronto explained a generation ago. Why was a visually oriented, literate, world indifferent to all but Euclidean space—until Lewis Carroll and Albert Einstein? Audile-tactile space is the space of involvement. We “lose touch” without it. Visual space is the space of detachment and the public precautions we call “scientific method” and scholarly or citational erudition. Jazz As Easy As Conversation. (N.Y. Times, Aug. 18/68) Speech Scientist Wants to Use the Sound of the Human Voice to Help Protect Confidential Information.