Most interesting points,
in my short experience in the place when I am recording I fell the "holisti=
c information" one species of totalization, and this is to me unique, invau=
label and impossible to record. When I am at home listening the recordings =
I fell the fragmentation and I fight against it. Is my relationship to it: =
before and after, before is the "moment" recorded sound is allways the afte=
r the moment, maybe time as something to do with it I suspect.
--- In "hebertblaine" <> wrot=
e:
>
> "We are trying to hear the landscape the same way we see it - separating =
it into discreet objects and recombining. But listening is not seeing. Expa=
nsive listening gives us holistic information about what is around us, and =
our relationship to it."
>
> I disagree. Unless we purposefully listen to the cacophony of the whole =
what we normally do is listen to the individual sources in a soundscape, pi=
cking them out and perhaps studying their interrelationships with other sou=
nds. That we would process sounds much like we process sights or even scen=
t or other senses might be more logical.
>
> B. Hebert
>
>
> --- In Andrew Skeoch <listen@> wrote:
> >
> > Hi folks,
> >
> > I feel this thread touches upon a really important issue. In deciding a=
ppropriate technological approaches, we need to first be clear about why we=
're listening.
> >
> > It occurs to me that using multiple mic sources is actually an attempt =
to synthesize a soundscape that accords more to our visual sense than our a=
uditory one. We are trying to hear the landscape the same way we see it - s=
eparating it into discreet objects and recombining. But listening is not se=
eing. Expansive listening gives us holistic information about what is aroun=
d us, and our relationship to it. And this is referenced upon the human-sca=
le listening experience of two ears hanging in the breeze.
> >
> > For me; I want to reawaken my listening from its post-industrial torpor=
, and enrich my relationship with the world around me. I utilise audio tech=
nology, taking that human-scale listening as my reference point.
> >
> > I could imagine an artistic agenda in exploring 'alternate sensory view=
points' though mixing multiple sources, but I can't help feeling that there=
is nothing culturally radical in this, just an extension of our human fasc=
ination with how much we can abstract and manipulate nature. Legerdemain. H=
ow far can we go?
> >
> > Personally, I'm with you on this one Geoff :) Single point stereo; sim=
ple technology, coherent information, fieldcraft, personal presence in the =
landscape, deep listening (not to mention less time farting around in the s=
tudio afterwards!).
> >
> > To me, the important issue is not what I can DO with audio technology, =
but how it can help me BE in the world.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Andrew
> >
> >
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> > Andrew Skeoch & Sarah Koschak
> >
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