From: James Cole (email suppressed)
Date: Tue Oct 20 2009 - 12:15:55 PDT
Shit, sorry, that wasn't meant for the list.
On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 3:15 PM, James Cole <email suppressed>wrote:
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> On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 2:34 PM, Peiman Khosravi <email suppressed
> > wrote:
>
>> From this article "... we are not equipped to switch our visual apparatus
>> into non-survival mode long enough to sustain non-interpretative viewing. "
>> This is very similar to what Scaehffer calls "reduced listening". A mode
>> of listening in which one listens to sounds for themselves rather than what
>> they represent. An anti-evolutionary attitude that takes good practice to
>> achieve.
>>
>> Acousmatic listening is the opposite of *direct* listening, which is the
>> “natural”
>> situation where sound sources are present and visible.
>> The acousmatic situation changes the way we hear. By isolating the sound
>> from the
>> “audiovisual complex” to which it initially belonged, it creates
>> favourable conditions for
>> *reduced listening* which concentrates on the sound for its own sake, as
>> *sound object*,
>> independently of its causes or its meaning (although reduced listening can
>> also take place, but
>> with greater difficulty, in a direct listening situation). (Chion)
>>
>>
>> It is interesting that an acousmatic listening situation (in which sounds
>> are separated from their sources - i.e. no visual cues) actually heightens
>> the stimulation of the visual imagination, particularly when no tangible
>> physical sources are perceived. In the same way that the "hearing" sense can
>> be heightened and is heightened in experiencing Brakhage. I cannot wait to
>> get hold of the actual writings of Stan Brakhage. Musicians have a lot to
>> learn from him.
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> Peiman
>>
>> On 20 Oct 2009, at 18:30, Myron Ort wrote:
>>
>> Here is an interesting article on the subject:
>>
>> http://www.horschamp.qc.ca/new_offscreen/silent_legacy.html
>>
>>
>> Myron Ort
>>
>>
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