Doesn't that contradict the intent of soundscape ecology, which is an
attempt to assess what is present and how it functions? Any distortions
need to be taken into account, but if the recording only speaks to
'paralysis and death' and says nothing about that which is present and
alive, what use is soundscape ecology? If it is possible to use audio
recording as a tool in ecological inventory and assessment, then the
recording has some relationship to what is actually present and happening,
else it would be completely useless. To lump together all recordings,
those that attempt (however imperfectly) to approach what is present, and
those that make no such attempt, seems a bit cavalier. Was Cage just
referring to art recordings or did he have any notion of the possibilities
of soundscape ecology?
John
John Crockett
Westminster, VT
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> aspects of the natural world without amendment speak clearly to a vision
> of paralysis and death.=94
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