Sound at the Edge of Perception by Seán Street

Author:Seán Street
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
ISBN: 9789811316135
Publisher: Springer Singapore

My response to what I hear is subjective. The fact that I hear the bird and consider the apparent silence around it, gradually becoming aware of perspective, distance and gradated sounds from other sources, speaks as much about me, and my presence in the world, as it does about the blackbird in the rain. The bird is not at the centre of my sound world—I am.

We hear the presence of things as they interact with other things; ‘Listen to the wind!’ we may say, but in fact we are listening to the wind as air as it comes up against or interacts with objects such as windows, or gutters through the downpipe, or beats through the trees. It is matter giving wind its voice. So it is with rain:We hear the rain not through silent falling water but in the many translations delivered by objects that the rain encounters. Like any language, especially one with so much to pour out and so many waiting interpreters, the sky’s linguistic foundations are expressed in an exuberance of form… (Haskell , 4)

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