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The pedler sweats with his pack on his back, (the purchaser hig-gling about the odd cent;)
This section, but really the whole piece: beauty and art is created within city noise, rather than against it
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However, these reforms were accompanied by a crackdown on crime that was wide enough to include virtually all disorderly activity.
Interesting. Curious if the same thing happened again in the 80s
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By visually representing sound in the form of noise maps, decibel readings, and police reports, noise is brought int
Ties back to a previous reading, which discussed how difficult it is to map/categorize sound, whereas we name colors very early in age
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Ontheotherhand,thephenomenologicalanthropocentrismofalmostallmusical'andsonicanalysis,obsessedwithindividualized,subjectivefeeling,denigratesthevibrationalnexusatthealtarofhumanaudition,therebyneglectingtheagency'distribute'daround avibrationalencounterandignoringthenonhum,anparticipantsofthenexusofexperience
How are we possibly supposed to account for this, though?
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Dated. How do we even attempt to apply this theory to our current world?
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fanotherfieldofknowledgereplacedpsychoacousticsincommimication engineering,everythingfromtelephonestotaperecordersto MP3swouldsoimd,workandmeandifferentlythantheydotoday.
see: recent work on 3D sound rather than L/R, due to advances in understanding how our brain processes the delay of sounds between each ear
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Not to mention: if sound is purely subjective as argued on the previous page, can you ever really obtain a deeper knowledge of sound itself, or is it limited to a more academic knowledge of others' subjective experiences (+histories)?
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Nowthinkofwhatthepreviousgenerationofsoundsmusthavereplaced,andwhatthosesoundsandtheirworldsreplacedinturn.
I'm reminded of a prediction of future city design which I read several years ago, written in the early 20th century when we were still deeply infatuated by the automobile. The author seemed to think that public areas could coexist with cars--an illustration of a several-lane roundabout with a park in the center particularly comes to mind. What the author didn't take into account: streets of the future ended up being unpleasantly loud.
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Newthematicconferencesonsoundpopupeachyear.^
Indeed, I just went to the 1st annual Mixing Convention in Brooklyn a month or so ago!
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