quantum listening
I really enjoyed reading this text and the definitions and exercises proposed by the author seem quite interesting.
I enjoyed with the proposal of listening beyond our time/reality; to be open to every sound wave, every reality; to be aware of changes and interactions through that reality and let those change the way one feels it... isn´t that a new reality then?
I really enjoyed reading this text and the definitions and exercises proposed by the author seem quite interesting.
I enjoyed with the proposal of listening beyond our time/reality; to be open to every sound wave, every reality; to be aware of changes and interactions through that reality and let those change the way one feels it... isn´t that a new reality then?
Some thoughts, questions on the text:
-what if one could hear a live concert the way they wanted?
where would be the artistic expression focused then? in the performer or the audience?
- technology: Are we minoring the destructive power of sound in favor of technological progress and building machine's power?
- though less regarded in other technological explorations, hearing is still the one perception possible to be "replaced" by prosthetics, will this be one of the reasons we still are not so concerned on destroying it?
- relationships between eyes and ears/ vision and hearing:
we look where our eyes tell us to; the author mentions in quantum listening touch but what about a more intense experience with also a visual stimulus coherent and synchronized to listening? or would that overlap and diminish the listening?
- curiosities...
- according to the author we'll soon be in close experience of worlds before explored by sci-fi authors; from prosthetics to nano technology. What will be preferred? robotics imitating our system or reconstrauction of our nervour frameworks? Or a never-ending fight between both approaches like in Bruce Sterling's Schismatrix?
- with the technology advances in sound manipulation (sampling, digital sound techniques) and the extreme exploration of this medium, by the end of the century the work done by dj's before was extrapolated in new mashup styles and micro-sampling of MTV-pop anthems as an attitude against market manipulations and directions. As expected these mashups are now part of MTV calendar.