tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7518238669349428298.post7050707921572080999..comments2022-11-19T01:46:13.404+00:00Comments on Benjamin Louis Mawson: Acoustemologies of Space Benjamin Louis Mawsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03378422238917686771noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7518238669349428298.post-42729324691589440512013-06-21T10:15:55.808+01:002013-06-21T10:15:55.808+01:00Hi Ben,
Slightly mindbending post. I'm going ...Hi Ben, <br />Slightly mindbending post. I'm going to need to reflect on it a while...Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14943065329505733095noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7518238669349428298.post-19582356203568835752013-06-19T01:23:00.226+01:002013-06-19T01:23:00.226+01:00Alex, thank you, (2) quite right. Incidentally, I ...Alex, thank you, (2) quite right. Incidentally, I used the word as a kind of bebop for "listen to the space, cats", not considering its probable proliferation in diverse and dense enquiries ( as shown by http://www.google.co.uk/search?rls=en&q=Acoustemologies+of+Space)<br />(1) I was delighted to be brought face to face with the "idealogeme" for the first time! Cheers. <br /><br />A neat compacting of a troubling and persistent view of the function of crafted sound and the lack of 'function' or use, whether in signification or intrinsic attraction and interest, thereby attributed to the unorganised or incidental noise of surroundings. <br /><br />I hope not to suggest a Schaferian pious caution and conservationist ring-fencing of a place's sonic properties like the aristocrats forced to live as exhibits in Anouilh's revolutionary museum (La Belle Vie) - what I am in fact looking for in the recording and composing explorations that touch on this - permission of the arbitrary to state itself without intervention, being potentially as interesting as any deliberated construct - is to engage in a dialogue (non-verbal) with listeners, about wonder, the numinous as it shows itself in the usually unnoticeable, the comic obscenities of urban organisation with all their grotesque impositions upon the spirit nonetheless being able to yield up sonic and other elements of joy that may be the product of randomness, but are nonetheless amazing and worthy of our ears. <br />Benjamin Louis Mawsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03378422238917686771noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7518238669349428298.post-83459395050982322652013-06-18T23:05:34.701+01:002013-06-18T23:05:34.701+01:00Ben, this is a rather interesting collection of co...Ben, this is a rather interesting collection of contemplations. Some of your thoughts, in a way or another, have also crossed my mind. <br />Two points: <br />1) I'm not sure whether the notion of "story-telling" and the association of music/sound with extra-musical interpretations, references and analyses is due to the temporal dimension of music/sound. I think that it stems from the 19th century ideologemes (the fundamental ideological units of romanticism-classicism) which have established several conceptual fallacies (regarding the intersection of form and material) and have shaped what we call a "musical work" in terms of western art music. <br />2) I would think that "acoustemology" would be more suitable, rather than "acoustymology".Alex Spyrouhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00881843399554295956noreply@blogger.com