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- 2. “With noise is born disorder and its opposite: the world.”
- 4. “Every sensory interaction relates back to us not the object/phenomenon perceived, but that object/phenomenon filtered, shaped and produced by the sense(s) employed in its perception.”
- 5. “…any organization of sounds is then a tool for the creation or consolidation of a community…”
- 8. “Americans have perceived sound as dangerously porous and transgressive, spilling over and across imagined boundaries between public and private….Noise has regularly marked the limit of what neighbors have been willing to tolerate.”
- 11. “Sound is caused by and associated with things in motion.”
- 12. Silence is the absence of motion.
- 13. Silence CHARACTER Sound LANGUAGE/METAPHOR CONTROL MECHANISM PRIVILEGE PARTICIPATION TIME HISTORY
- 16. Silence Sound
- 19. “The loiterer remains still in spaces where continual movement is encouraged –shops, stations, fast-food outlets and car parks… Weaponized classical music, then, aims to remove this blockage, to smooth out this disruption, to inhibit stillness.”
- 20. “….sound appears simultaneously as a force that constitutes the world and a medium for constructing knowledge about it.”
- 29. “Noise, defined as unwanted sound, is a pollutant whose effects on health have been neglected, despite the ability to precisely measure or calculate exposure from peak levels or energy averaged over time.”
- 31. Who wrote this fiendish Rite of Spring What right had he to write the thing, Against our helpless ears to fling Its crash, clash, cling, clang, bing, bang, bing? And then to call it Rite of Spring, the season when on joyous wing The birds melodious carols sing And harmony’s in everything! He who could write the Rite of Spring, If I be right, by right should swing!” -anonymous review in Boston Herald, 1924
- 32. “…the reformulations of perceptions of space and time as one of the signposts of modernity.”
- 33. Is the world noisier than it was previously?
Editor's Notes
- IN the codes that structure noise and its mutations we glipmse a new theoretical practice and reading: estbalihsing relaitons between the history of people and the dynamics of the economy on the one hadn and the history of ordering noise in codes on the other; predicting the evolution of one by the forms of the other; combining economics and aesthetics; demonstrating that music is prophetic and that social organization echoes it.” Noise Attali p. 5 With noise is born disorder and its opposite: the world. P. 6 All music, any organization of sounds is then a tool for the creation or consolidation of a community, of a totality….more generally, it is an attribute of power in all of its forms….any theory of power today must include a theory of the localization of noise and its endowment with form. P. 6
- p. 3 Listening to Noise and Silence Salome Voegelin Example.
- IN the codes that structure noise and its mutations we glimpse a new theoretical practice and reading: establishing relations between the history of people and the dynamics of the economy on the one hand and the history of ordering noise in codes on the other; predicting the evolution of one by the forms of the other; combining economics and aesthetics; demonstrating that music is prophetic and that social organization echoes it.” Noise Attali p. 5 With noise is born disorder and its opposite: the world. P. 6 All music, any organization of sounds is then a tool for the creation or consolidation of a community, of a totality….more generally, it is an attribute of power in all of its forms….any theory of power today must include a theory of the localization of noise and its endowment with form. P. 6
- https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CZh3aoWXEAAcbBh.jpg:large 9:34 PM - 24 Jan 2016 tweet from jessamyn west
- “Americans have perceived sound as dangerously porous and transgressive, spilling over and across imagined boundaries between public and prviate, between self and other, and among discrete religious communities in ways that have often felt uncontrollable and uncontainable….Noise has regularly marked the limit of what neighbors have been willing to tolerate.” p. 2 Religion Out Loud Anthony Weiner
- Culturally derived See aurality
- Stocker, Michael. Hear Where We Are: Sound, Ecology, and Our Sense of Place. Springer, 2013. Therefore silence is the opposite of this. that silence is not moving and being quietly. Also that sound is eponymous with progress. “The loiterer remains still in spaces where continual movement is encouraged –shops, stations, fast-food outlets and car parks. Weaponised classical music, then, aims to remove this blockage, to smooth out this disruption, to inhibit stillness.” Marie Thompson Everyday Sonic Warfare: Affect, Ideology and the Weaponised Use of Classical Music
- Or at the very least the absence of things that produce motion.
- Shared aspects between Silence and Sound: Sonic warfare. However these itesm are driven/received culturally Character The character of a silence *pregnant silence* *empty silence* That was a scary sounds Language/Metaphor Both silence and sound carry significant metaphorical impact. Control Mechanisms Silence and sound are both used as control mechanisms. We think to the classroom. Also crowd control. Privilege Silence and sound are both privileges. Particularly when we think of sound in terms of speech/ the right to speak is frankly a privilege espeically in particularly contexts. When an individaul stands at the front of a seated room with an amplification system that setup privileges that individual over the others. Silence is also seen as a privilege. READ CS Lewis quote Participation
- Both silence and sound require and necessitate listening. “Sound invites the body into experience and reciprocally makes the object physical.” p. 14 Salome Voegelin Sound demands to heard and urges a confrontation of the heard w/ critical language. P. 27
- http://www.npr.org/sections/deceptivecadence/2015/01/27/381575433/fifty-years-of-steve-reichs-its-gonna-rain Images from: http://cargocollective.com/bvblog
- Silence seems to invite listening The character of the sound is associated with the individual responsible for making that sound.
- Culturally derived See aurality
- “Schopenhauer proclaimed music and noise as indispendsable ingredient of philosophical speculation-noise b/c it can ‘instantly shatter the power of thought’ and music b/c the ‘combined rational numerical relations set the brain fibres themselves vibrating in a similar way.’ quoted by Shafer in Auditory Culture Schopenhauer’s desire to punish noisy interlopers with physical punishment (5 blows with a stick) sees a particular conclusion in the desire to hang Stravinsky for the noise made in his Rite of Spring. That b/c sound intrudes that it must be put down.
- Carlyle had enough of Demon Fowls and other distrubance to issue bloodthirsty response in defense of his terriroty. “Those Cocks must either withdraw or die. That is a fixed point-and I must do it myself if no one will help: it is really too bad the ‘celebrated’ man or any man’ or even a well-conditioned anmial (of any size) should be submitted to such scandalous paltrinesses. He reserved special venom for his nemesis, a “vile yellow Italian” organ grinder: “The question arises, Whether to go out and, if not assassiante him, call the Police upon him, or to take myself away to the bath-tub and the other side of the hosue? Of course I ought to chuse the latter alternative-and do, for the wrethc’s organ is a horse one, I hear; drawn by a horse; and one would think, played by one” All summer I have been more or less annoyed with noiseseven accidental ones which get free access thro’ my open windows…henceforth I hope to be independent of all men and all dogs, cocks and household or street noises.”“For Carlyle, to rest, but more important to work, depned upon denying outdoor commotion “free access” to interrior professional space. Carlyle sought to create a personal space that ouside ground could not infiltrate. Room had double walls, skylights (instead of windows) and salted roof with muffling air chambers beneath. Page 143 The Soundproof study This struggle with street noise and street music continutes particularly against the organ grinder and these efforts find clearn boundaries in three areas. Defendign the purity of the English national identity and culture against the taint of foreign infiltration; second, upholding economic and social divisions between the lower classes and middle-class professionals Third, protecting the frail, afflicted bodies of the (English, middle-class) invalid from the invasive, debilitating effects of (foreign, lower-class street music) p. 144 Soundproof Study (SSR) These efforts go so far as to resort, again to violence. “The only way to deal with escaped wild animals, the author concluded, was to hunt them down: “no Londoner should sally forth to business w/o first spiking, or hanging or shooting one of the howlers of the streets.” Depicting the musicians as filthy animals and ultimately urging urban self-defense, this position drew upon language of the hunt to demonstrate among other things the perissntece of territorial concerns of metarphos of invasion and containmetn in the gathering opposition to street music. It was for an emerging segment of middle-class professionals (“brain-workers authors, artists, etc.) that the notions of terriotry took on new meanigns and their attacks reflected the added strains of haing simultaneosuly to define and defend their newfound socioeconomic turf.” p. 149 SSR
- https://idletigers.wordpress.com/2008/01/24/earwigs-and-a-leech-organ-grinders-in-victorian-cities/
- https://idletigers.wordpress.com/2008/01/24/earwigs-and-a-leech-organ-grinders-in-victorian-cities/
- https://idletigers.wordpress.com/2008/01/24/earwigs-and-a-leech-organ-grinders-in-victorian-cities/
- A street scene with people and carriages deep in mud, street traders and musicians and hot-air balloons in the distance. Coloured etching by Paul Pry, 1828 via http://diseasesofmodernlife.org/tag/sound-studies/
- Sounds do not have character. What often differentiates between something between perceived as a sound or a noise is dependent on the familiarity of the individual with the sound being made.
- One’s soundscape.
- St. Mark’s Church Philadelphia.
- St. Mark’s Church Philadelphia.
- http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3988259/ Mathias Basner “Observational and experimental studies have shown that noise exposure leads to annoyance, disturbs sleep and causes daytime sleepiness, affects patient outcomes and staff performance in hospitals, increases the occurrence of hypertension and cardiovascular disease, and impairs cognitive performance in schoolchildren. In this Review, we stress the importance of adequate noise prevention and mitigation strategies for public health.” “Research focus has broadened to social noise (eg, heard in bars or through personal music players) and environmental noise (eg, noise from road, rail, and air traffic, and industrial construction). These noise exposures have been linked to a range of non-auditory health effects including annoyance,4 sleep disturbance,5 cardiovascular disease,6,7 and impairment of cognitive performance in children.8 The health effects of noise from entertainment venues and from neighbours are elusive, but nevertheless, cause many complaints to local authorities. The meaning attributed to sounds might affect our response to them—eg, the response to aircraft noise might differ between an airport employee and a resident who fears long-term health consequences due to the noise exposure. Noise is pervasive in urban environments and the availability of quiet places is decreasing.”
- http://nyti.ms/1Txtwcq CLICK THE BEAST!!
- Murray Schafer as in Auditory Culture Reader We have no ear lids. We are condemned to listen. But this does not mean our ears are always open. Example?