omichalis
Date: Tue Jul 7, 2009 12:08 am ((PDT))
Well,
they failed though... as their work is great art !! lol..
Anyway,
the fact is that you cannot "represent" the real either by
"recording" or taking photographs,
not only due to technical limitations,
but, philosophically speaking,
because when you "record" you take a certain slice of reality that is
served to you as such, you strip it out of visual stimuli, smells,
bodily feelings and such, and you keep only sound which then you
project to another space and time.. Thus you also strip sound from
its own time characteristics.
And more importantly because the act of "recording" introduces self-
referentiality on its own,
that is to say that if for example I record the ambience in a forest,
after sb listens to it 3 times it' s no longer ambience in a forest
(well I could argue that it never was anyway..) but it is THE
ambience in THE forest that ME recorded.
There are really too many philosophical implications to mention here,
and I am not sure if the list is interested in my personal
metaphysics... :-)
but it' s a fact that we cannot represent reality -both technically
and philosophically, either way somehow we will fail,
as Barry Truax admitted in a conversation we had some months ago that
though they began the soundscape project for purely documentary
reasons, they soon realised that they couldn' t record the real...
and further that they found aesthetics there..
On 07 =CE=99=CE=BF=CF=85=CE=BB 2009, at 8:24 =CE=A0=CE=9C, Matt Blaze wrote=
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> The f/64 group (Weston, Adams, etc) advanced the
> ideal of "straight photography", aiming
> to be devoid of "artistic" manipulation and presenting a simple,
> direct perspective on the world as it is found.
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