- Feb 2016
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The pure contralto sings in the organ loft,
akin to the lines in another Whitman poem, "I Hear America Singing." IHAS describes the sounds of America as a growing nation full of promise--including, of course, urban sounds
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I witness and wait.
to witness is also to listen
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Shall I postpone my acceptation and realization and scream at my eyes,
A literal interpretation suggests that the speaker is having a visceral sonic response to his eyes, as they enable him to see things that would prompt such screams. This interpretation furthers the idea that sound often exists as a reaction to the visual--the antithesis to Stern's argument
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“mystiqueofrhythm,”
doesn't fall in line with the biological/physical aspects of rhythmanalysis
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obsessedwithindividualized,subjectivefeeling,denigratesthevibrationalnexusatthealtarofhumanaudition,therebyneglectingtheagency'distribute'daround avibrationalencounterandignoringthenonhum,anparticipantsofthenexusofexperience
there is an untouchable aspect to the science of vibrations, one that can't be "denigrated" by human feeling
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oundcomestotherescueofthoughtratherthantheinverse,forcingittovibrate,looseningupitsorganizedorpetrifiedbody.
"thought" here equates to definitions of sound as assigned by human listeners; this suggests that one does not pontificate on sound, but sound is inherently revealing and lends itself to philosophical insight rather than being theoretical fodder
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insertingthematweakspotsinthehistoryofWesternphilosophy,
sound is tied to theory, physics, and even the Big Bang, but to characterize sound as a human-driven auditory experience reduces sound to something entirely human-centric
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- Jan 2016
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JohnCagehasdeclared:“Musicissounds,soimdsarounduswhetherwe’reinoroutofconcerthalls:
this calls into question what constitutes sound itself, as Cage composed a piece consisting of 4 minutes and 33 seconds of utter silence (as mentioned in the paragraph below.) might the absence of sound still qualify as sound?
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Wemustnotautomaticallytakeanydiscourseaboutsoundinitsownterms,butratherinterrogatethetermsuponwhichitisbuilt.
characterizes the relationship between sound and language--discussions of sound have given rise to a new vocabulary for sound students
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arawayfamouslyusedvisionmetaphorstodescribeperspectiveasaconstitutivefeatureofepistemology,butonecoulduseauditionjustaseasily.
implies that audio and visual metaphors are equally effective
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eopleinpositionsofpowerallover19th-centuryEuropeweresoworkedupaboutthedifferentstandardsfororchestraltuningthatmanycountriespassedlawstoresolvetheproblem.'
demonstrates the close relationship between sound/music and how each is often conflated with the other; additionally, the extent to which sound has infiltrated society, from the personal (entertainment) to the political (legislation)
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