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+'''◦ How does the sentence “The medium is the message” by Marshall McLuhan applies to your practice? Comment on this quote in the context of your own work and in regards to this transcontinental collaboration, etc.'''
+despite the controversy about the person here and in diverse media sources, i will try to translate his oppinions in this little quote into the questions.
+since everyone's action is considered as a medium, everyone has the power to subliminal change a project's final result (even with an act out of miscomprehension),
+the different approaches and intentions in art and our cultural and locational differences in our class, aswell as the limitations and barriers of education and life situations, the short timewindow of working together, etc.. should be considered as a gain for letting something interesting grow, not the opposite.
+when thinking about myself, a lack of knowledge or an indifferent view of the obvious intention of things often leads me to unintended ideas, which is what i've started to looking for intentionally.
+so if i have to see the broader person of McLuhan, i would have to disagree with my own conclusions, the changes i could predict now would force me to do that. and i can't do that easily. so my thoughts will be detached from his appearance as a person and as an unintended side effect of his quote. that is all.
+'''◦ American sound artist Bill Fontana made several pieces in which he transfers sound from one location to another. How does this locational switch change our understanding of a the space(s) in question? What new aspects of a sonic environment might emerge? What happens to our perception of a location once it is stripped from its original sounds and these are replaced by sounds from another location?'''
+i think it gets easier for me nowadays to seperate audio and visuals, and with the whole media easier for everyone to not hear or not see something. so i have to question artistic power of exchanging one soundscape with another without putting it in a broader context.
+'''◦ How does an instrument through which sound is transmitted shape our expectation and the perception of it (loudspeaker, telephone, alarm-clock), in other words, what if the expectation is not met, what impact can this have on our perception?'''
+in these three examples there are 3 different types of perceiving sound, aesthetics-communication-awareness. maybe we should look at an environment where these types blend together.
+take a soundscape in a landscape:
+i hear people talking, birds singing - yet i'm not thinking i'm having a conversation, or i'm having to awnser. tones and rhythmic elements evolve, but rarely i get the desire to enhance the composition or having to dance. a distant emergency car and dogs barking - i'm not hiding behind a corner all the time.
+so besides the actual sounds and different and the localization or the sonic direction you have to consider the expectation as the main instrument of perceiving sound in a situation.
+experiment in attachment:
+if a speech by someone would actually start spinning around me very fast, i would most likely just get lost in the event of a constantly changing perception of the sound and focus on either the aesthetics or the quality of the movement. then the voice turns into a monotonous ~0.5sec long tone in a fixed position with both short attack and release slowly emerging into a sustaining operette voice and transforming again in "pure" speech. a full circle.
+but i'm unsure about the actual impact on our perceptions by an experiment like this, especially if your expectations are already formed in any way and you're sitting in a room with several loudspeakers and someone presses "play". also you would focus on the changes and shifts so no realistic comprehention of a situation could be generated.
+while i think a conditioning and/or experiments could be fruitful on the aesthetic and communicative side, our ears for danger and awareness are more connected to a physical reaction, caused by the subconsciousness. some people wake up by the sound of their favourite song played by their mobile phone, but i doubt that several experiences of an unexpected sound of a lion shouting at you (maybe through a public sound installation), would affect the risk of surviving your next safari at all.
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