Welcome to Sound Projects

Sound, Noise, Silence, and Music - how do we define them? When we listen to these elements critically, how can we use them in our own work with an awareness of their social and political functions? This course will explore developments in sound art from the early-20th century to the present, to cultivate a critical ear for listening and creating. We will listen to work by artists who have blurred traditional boundaries of music, science, design, fine arts, and philosophy, and read critical writings in cultural studies, sound and media theory.

2007-11-05

Noise and Politics-Jacques Attali

4th page of the reading 1, 2nd paragraph
"to listen,to memorize-this is the ability to interpret and control history"

If you want you can read one short story of Borges named Fiounes the Rememberer
that is very interesting about the concept of being able to memorize.
It is also very important to connect somehow the function of memorizing with the function of generalizing and see how these work.
I have the story but in greek.If anybody is interested we can search and find it in english.If not I can summarize it and we can talk about it.

This is a link to see some things about Borges:

http://www.themodernword.com/borges/

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