heroic silences, villainous noises
TRANSCRIPT
Heroic Silences
& Villainous Sounds
“With noise is born disorder and its
opposite: the world.”
1.Enchanting Music 2.Music-ish3.Neutral4.Noisey5.Unadulterated Noise
“Every sensory interaction relates back to us not the
object/phenomenon perceived,
but that object/phenomenon filtered, shaped and produced by the sense(s) employed in its
perception.”
“…any organization of sounds is then
a tool for the creation or
consolidation of a community…”
“Americans have perceived sound as dangerously porous and
transgressive, spilling over and across imagined boundaries
between public and private….Noise has regularly marked the limit of
what neighbors have been willing to tolerate.”
Silence Sound
Silence
Good Sounds
Bad Sounds
“Sound is caused by and
associated with things in motion.”
Silence is the absence of motion.
Silence CHARACTER
Sound
LANGUAGE/METAPHORCONTROL MECHANISM
PRIVILEGEPARTICIPATION
TIMEHISTORY
LISTENING
SOUNDSILENCE
Silence Sound
Good Sounds
Bad SoundsNOISE
“The loiterer remains still in spaces where continual movement is encouraged –shops, stations,
fast-food outlets and car parks…Weaponized classical music, then, aims to remove this blockage, to
smooth out this disruption, to inhibit stillness.”
“….sound appears simultaneously as a force that constitutes the world
and a medium for constructing knowledge
about it.”
ArthurSchopenhauer
1788-1860
Thomas Carlyle
1795-1881
MODERN LIFE
PACE+
NOISE=
“Noise, defined as unwanted sound, is a pollutant whose effects on health
have been neglected, despite the ability
to precisely measure or calculate exposure from peak levels
or energy averaged over time.”
Who wrote this fiendish Rite of SpringWhat right had he to write the thing,
Against our helpless ears to flingIts crash, clash, cling, clang, bing, bang, bing?
And then to call it Rite of Spring,the season when on joyous wingThe birds melodious carols singAnd harmony’s in everything!
He who could write the Rite of Spring,If I be right, by right should swing!”
-anonymous review in Boston Herald, 1924
“…the reformulations of perceptions of space and time as
one of the signposts of modernity.”
Is the world noisier than it was previously?