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Resource type: Book Chapter BibTeX citation key: Carter2004 Email resource to friend View all bibliographic details |
Categories: General Keywords: Society, Space Creators: Carter, Erlmann Publisher: Berg (Oxford) Collection: Hearing Cultures: Essays on Sound Listening and Modernity |
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p.44
"LISTENERS CONSTRUCT AUDITORY SPACE [...] To be communicative depends upon anticipating the other's moves."
Added by: Mark Grimshaw-Aagaard
Keywords: Society Space |
p.56
"...making sound recordings involves a poetics of performance reflecting the character and limitations of the technology."
Added by: Mark Grimshaw-Aagaard
Keywords: Sound Recording Technology |
p.59
Listening to an acoustic ecology or a culture typically involves a hearing bias, a discrimination towards foreground sounds and against background noise. When listening to a culture, this reinforces "the proposition that culture is communication." This, for Carter, is a mistake.
Added by: Mark Grimshaw-Aagaard
Keywords: Acoustic ecology Society |
p.59
"Auditory space is durational, but it lacks music's (and writing's) commitment to linear development. Without a sense of ending, it is not located between silences."
Added by: Mark Grimshaw-Aagaard
Keywords: Space Time |
p.60
In many societies, "[m]eaning is derived not from the place of the sound sign in relation to other sound signs within the communicational system. It originates from outside the system, from the association of the sound with a sound in the environment that it mimics."
Added by: Mark Grimshaw-Aagaard
Keywords: Meaning Semiotics Society |