ENVS 1000 Lecture Notes - Biophony, Musicology, Anthropophony
8 Apr 2014
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Urban design (hough) response to fragmentation of local nature, ecological impacts, placelessness, loss of identity. The natural city cities being part of the natural world. Toronto"s ecological footprint 200 times larger than cities represent a paradox and complicated relationship. European cities have become much more ecofriendly than canadian cities. A visual aural culture than a sensible aural. Mcluhan/carpenter founder of media studies in 1950s, argued that: Media functions as extensions of our senses (the sensorium ) and that they configure the awareness and experience of each one of us. Contemporary media divorce sound from location: oral/aural culture is characterized by rooted, embedded sound. Sonic shock what happens when ppl are newly exposed to a technology (radio, photographs, movies) How do new media alter their sense of their bodies, their environment; what can this tell us about their original phenomenological immersion in their environments. Traditional cultures have a different sense of how things are shaped and how things move around.
