CMN 210 Chapter Notes - Chapter N/A: Chief Operating Officer, Visual Works, Soundscape
29 Mar 2018
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What the hills are alive with: in defense of the sounds of nature. Sounds that we appear to value the most and are relevant to an aesthetics of nature are those sounds produced in and by nature. Sound of the wind depends on what it is blowing: raises problems about how to individuate sounds of nature by their causes. Is o(cid:374)e is heari(cid:374)g the sou(cid:374)d of (cid:449)ater agai(cid:374)st the ro(cid:272)ks, or is it the (cid:449)a(cid:448)es, (cid:449)i(cid:374)d, tide, et(cid:272) . The sound of the land: usually we do not ascribe sounds to visual works, but we can do so if they are intentionally made to include sounds, as in sound sculptures. Sounds are to be attributed to a part, the particular soundscape, of the whole. Judgments are guided by artwork, but the are significantly underdetermined by that object: our aesthetic judgments should be potentially universal (agreement requirement)
