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Re: New Soundscapes & realism

Subject: Re: New Soundscapes & realism
From: "Robin" escalation746
Date: Wed Jan 11, 2012 3:33 pm ((PST))
Scott Fraser wrote:

> To David's, John's, Mark's, & other's comments I'll add my own opinion; that 
> we are all in the business of creating illusions, that the basic instinct of 
> humans is to tell a story. It is all artifice, based on decisions about what 
> to exclude as well as to what to include. I don't think hard lines about what 
> is & isn't 'honest nature' truly exist. These are soft distinctions, because 
> humans are complex & multidimensional.

I agree completely. Further, without the sounds of human activity, Mark 
Brennan's recordings would be far more fictive and less representational than 
they are in the current state. Surely by now people realise that nothing called 
"nature" can possibly exist outside a cultural context?

Thanks, Mark, for sharing these sounds with us. They help us all in deciding 
our place in the soundscape, a place which, by definition, has been framed and 
mounted.

-- robinparmar.com







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