“All I am doing is directing attention to the sounds of the environment” – John Cage
“Cage was concerned to organise the temporal unfolding of the work in a context where chance already rules, for reasons that are more social than musical…” – Jean Jacques Nattiez
background noise
listening breaks apart the shell of the subject, eases the borders of identity and initiates an interdependence whereby one is constituted by the whole environmental horizon.
listening is very social it brings people together
connects people around the world
communication technologies make us more involved in others lives
art and now music serve to open peoples eyes and ears to the enjoyment of their daily environment
the way that we send and receive information is more important than the information itself – mcluhan
our memory spans have been reduced due to technology
talks on the future and how we are shifting into cyberspace, memory and screen space become valuable.
META
NFT
EARTH 2
Earth 2® is a futuristic concept for a second earth; a metaverse, between virtual and physical reality in which real-world geolocations on a sectioned map correspond to user generated digital virtual environments. These environments can be owned, bought, sold, and in the near future deeply customized.
transurbanism – shift away from the material city to the immaterial flow of information
further definition- a design strategy that allows cities to organise themselves as complex systems, where small local structures incorporate global flows
Wollscheid’s work is “production of the local “ in which the work of the imagination coalesces into collective sensibility, enhancing the intensification of prensence in digital society.
sensor band global string
the work consists of a metal cable stretched from the floor to caking fitted ehhh vibration sensors, the sensors translate physical vibrations into digital data that are fed to the network.
it’s a mono chord where the two end points are physical and the middle is the betwoej
creating extended musical instrument that collects and collates multiple inputs along the way, argumentimg physical and virtual spaces
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sensorband are a trio of musicians using interactive technology active between 1993-2003

listening is about
Research on – Alchim Wollscheid
Joshua Meyrowitz
Tia DeNora
Marshall McLuhan
roland. bathes
david rothenburg
Achim Wollscheid