Nature, Sound Art and the Sacred
Communication through sound happens inevitably. This article is about humans and the difficulties and normalities we face communicating in our everyday lives. Communication is not just about speaking, or the outputs but also about listening, the input. The author speaks about different life forms on Earth and how they perceive sound differently than us. "Each form of life hears a slightly different multiverse." Everything on Earth comes in different shapes and sizes. We all perceive sound differently and look for different sounds within the main focus. Part One of the article is labeled “”Assumptions” which explains Dunn’s statement mid paragraph, “All of the sound we hear is only a fraction of all the vibrating going on in our universe.” That is a statement meant to break the “assumption” that all sound is automatically heard. This is meant to be taken literally, but somehow I saw a metaphor in this as well. The “sound” or commentary from a person is the only noise you hear, but it's not the only thought going on “under the surface”, or in the person's head. Music used to have a meaning to people and was admired as an art then more than now. This is disappointing, the author explains that to an artist music is “a way of making sense of the world from which we might refashion our relationship to nonhuman living systems.” Music helps its listeners put a different lens on the world and see things from a certain perspective, it is powerful to those who use it.
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