After abandoning the typographic method for assigning 28 noises to 26 alphabet + 2 punctuation signs, I felt lost and rather helpless about moving forward with my noisecode project. I considered phonetics as a key to the problem, but that would need me to develop at least twice as many noises (and likely to produce 3-element variables instead of current 2-element ones), as well as abandon my idea of creating a written alphabetical code.
As written realm provided to little rules for me to base noisecode on and phonetics offered to many of them, I decided to search for a solution in between. Ultimately, it is vowels and digraphs that should be credited for solving the problem.
Vowels
There are 5 vowels in English alphabet (A, E, I, O, U), as well as 2 semi-vowels (W, Y) depending on the word they appear in. In total there is 7 letters which act as vowels, which is defining a syllable. As noisecode is based on a set of 7 noises composed into unique pairs, I decided to assign one particular noise to become typical for vowels only. I chose mains hum, because even when accompanied by other noise it is still well head and distinguishable. Thereby, I hope to strengthen the specific language rhythm that will be heard in texts translated to noisecode.
Digraphs
"A digraph is a pair of characters used to write one phoneme (distinct sound) or a sequence of phonemes that does not correspond to the normal values of the two characters combined". (source: Wikipedia)
There is 41 English language digraphs which I used as rules in noisecode:
ae / ai / au / aw / ay / cc / ch / ci / ck / dg / ea / ei / eo / eu / ew / ey / gm / gn /
ie / kn / mb / ng / oa / oe / oi / ou / ow / oy / ph / ps / qu / rh / sc / sh / si / th /
ti / ue / ui / wh / wr.
Apart from that I used 5 English trigraph rules: igh / ous / sch / ssi / tch.
The rule is a formal requirement for both noise pairs coding a digraph to have at least one common elemental noise, e.g. TH digraph consists of T and H which both are coded by two noise pairs consisting of one common element (grey noise) and two other noises being the second element in each pair (brown noise in T, white noise—H).
The only exception to this rule is OUS trigraph, where there is no common noise for all three letters, however each pair of subsequent letters has the rule applied: mains hum is the common element in OU-, pink noise provides the rule for -US.
Whether vowels and digraphs rules would prove to be viable solutions to my problem with the method of assigning noises to letters, this is what next translations into noisecode will show. I should create some samples shortly.
