CMNS 259 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Techne, Reverberation, Sound Trademark
14 Oct 2018
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Listening & culture: communication is a technique and technology. Worldview and the senses: perception is cultural, modernity, visualism and hierarchy of sense, history of modernity in sound, sound as technology of communication. Modernity/modernism: 19th/20 century following enlightenment, widespread literacy institutionalized recording of knowledge and practices, infrastructure , social organization, nation-states, objectivity, mass culture, commodification, visually-oriented aesthetic are semiotic shortcut (beep means certain person, distancing between production and consumption. Why is the sensory story important: western tech was the ear culture of tribal non-literate people in which spoke words have magical resonance, one world lives in the ear world the other in the world of visual. Different stories of modernity: capturing sound, professional listening, and communication techniques. 2: the language and music of nature are intimately connected with the nature of language and music (feld, go to somewhere foreign and observe the music practices of that culture through the lens of western lens.
