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1. How does the sentence “The medium is the message” by Marshall McLuhan applies to your practice? Comment on this quote in the context of your own work and in regards to this transcontinental collaboration, etc. | 1. How does the sentence “The medium is the message” by Marshall McLuhan applies to your practice? Comment on this quote in the context of your own work and in regards to this transcontinental collaboration, etc. | ||
-> The medium influences, changes the content that is submitted. -> Offers a new way of watching/ hearing. | |||
2. American sound artist Bill Fontana made several pieces in which he transfers sound from one location to another. How does this locational switch change our understanding of a the space(s) in question? What new aspects of a sonic environment might emerge? What happens to our perception of a location once it is stripped from its original sounds and these are replaced by sounds from another location? | 2. American sound artist Bill Fontana made several pieces in which he transfers sound from one location to another. How does this locational switch change our understanding of a the space(s) in question? What new aspects of a sonic environment might emerge? What happens to our perception of a location once it is stripped from its original sounds and these are replaced by sounds from another location? | ||
-> You dive places into other sonic environment. ->- If you don't know the place you can accept everything. | |||
3. How does an instrument through which sound is transmitted shape our expectation and the perception of it (loudspeaker, telephone, alarm-clock), in other words, what if the expectation is not met, what impact can this have on our perception? | 3. How does an instrument through which sound is transmitted shape our expectation and the perception of it (loudspeaker, telephone, alarm-clock), in other words, what if the expectation is not met, what impact can this have on our perception? | ||
-> cognitive prototypes (helmut rösing) -> As a child you learn to assemble an image with a sound and vice versa, to interact in your environment without distraction. | |||
-> We can make the difference between nature sounds and reproduced sounds (e.g. in a concert piece). | |||
Fred Frith-Morning Song | Fred Frith-Morning Song |
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