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Erlmann, V. (2000). Reason and resonance: A history of modern aurality. New York: Zone Books. Added by: Mark Grimshaw-Aagaard (3/2/14, 11:15 AM) Last edited by: Mark Grimshaw-Aagaard (2/15/24, 8:01 AM) |
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| Resource type: Book Language: en: English ID no. (ISBN etc.): 978-1-935408-04-8 BibTeX citation key: Erlmann2000 Email resource to friend View all bibliographic details  |
Categories: General Keywords: Acousmatic sound, Acoustic ecology, Acoustics, Perception, Presence, Self Creators: Erlmann Publisher: Zone Books (New York) Resources citing this (Bibliography: WIKINDX Master Bibliography) |
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p.24
Adapting Foucault's author function, "one might say that the listener is not simply the recipient of an indefinite number of significations that fill his or her hearing, nor does he or she come after the work. Rather, the listener is a function that fixes these meanings with the goal of circumscribing and prescribing the auditory ways in which individuals acknowledge themselves as subjects."
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Keywords: Self Meaning |
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p.273
"ample evidence of the fact that the sense of time is of fundamental importance to humans' sense of self". Erlmann relates this to Freud's Zauderrhythmus (vacillating rhythm) that governs the "proper interaction of consciousness and unconsciousness" -- thus perception is subject to "a "periodic" motion that wards off or at least slows down the "haste" of excessive excitations." According to Freud, this "apparatus not only sustains the organism and enlarges the domain of the ego by allowing us to step back from the urge to respond to each and every stimulus, it also determines our concept of time. Our entire time consciousness is based on the breaks that occur in the interplay between consciousness and the unconscious."
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Keywords: Ambiguity Self Time |
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p.304
Summarizing from Ernst Mach's (1838 - 1916) unpublished diaries, "physics, physiology, and psychology are part of a single field of knowledge in which "reality" is but a conglomeration of "sensational elements".
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Keywords: Sensation Reality/Virtuality/Actuality |
| pp.341–342 "thinking and hearing do not so much place the subject in a fixed position vis-à-vis the world as they entangle it in ever-changing relationships of tonal resonance" Added by: Mark Grimshaw-Aagaard |
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p.33
Plato and the atomists thought that sound was a stream of air particles or even "special atoms" issuing from the source.
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Keywords: Definition of sound |
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pp.236–237
Summarizing some of von Helmholtz's work c.1856 (On the Sensations of Tone: a sound (Klang) comprises several partials (Ton) thus perception, which is accomplished without reflection, is the act of fusing the sensation of several partials into one sound. Perceptions are thus the means by which we are aware of external objects whilst sensations allow us to become conscious of ourselves. "[P]erception is not based on conscious awareness and knowledge of the external world, but on a largely unconscious act" (p.237). cf Humphrey's (2000) reference to Thomas Reid's (1785) assertion that sensation presupposes a sentient being and no more but perception is an acknowledgement of something external to that being. Humphrey, N. (2000). The privatization of sensation. In C. Hayes & L. Huber (Eds), The Evolution of Cognition (pp. 241–252). Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press. Added by: Mark Grimshaw-Aagaard Keywords: Perception Sensation |
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p.257
Re Helmholtz's assertion that perception is unconscious, he suggests that conscious analysis of the Klang into Ton constituents would be disturbing. Thus, according to Helmholtz, as Erlmann puts it: "Hearing is repression." (p.257)
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Keywords: Sensation Perception |