Marshall McLuhans Ausspruch »The medium is the message« gilt in besonderer Weise für das Radio der Sowjetzeit. Indem es Inhalte einem massenhaften Publikum in akustischer Form vermittelt, wird das ...Radio zum revolutionären Medium, das bürgerliche Wissensformen der Buchkultur zugunsten eines sowjetischen, utopischen Weltverstehens zu überwinden verspricht. Die medienhistorische Studie zeigt auf, wie in den 1920er Jahren die Radiophonie bildungspolitische und künstlerische Visionen freisetzt. Diese verdichten sich mit dem massenmedialen Aufstieg des Radios in den 30er Jahren zu einer Poetik des Akusmatischen, die alle Bereiche der Kultur durchdringt. Sie manifestiert sich im sozialistischen Realismus der optimistischen Literatur und Kunst und prägt das familiale Verständnis von politischer Macht. Schließlich wirkt sie hinein bis in den diskursiven Innenbereich wissenschaftlicher Disziplinen – Linguistik, Recht, Physiologie, Biologie, Ökonomie – und lässt eine sowjetische Wissenschaft entstehen.
Cette thèse porte sur le concept d’objet sonore, élaboré par le fondateur du mouvement esthétique nommé « musique concrète » : Pierre Schaeffer, auteur de plusieurs ouvrages consacrés à la perception ...du son dans une perspective musicale. A travers la généalogie de ce concept devenu très populaire en musique contemporaine, nous cherchons d’abord à montrer comment se construit une pensée esthétique originale par l’apport de modèles théoriques variés : sciences naturelles, linguistique, et surtout philosophie de la perception contemporaine – phénoménologie, structuralisme et théorie de la forme. Le concept d’objet sonore se construit en effet aussi bien par des gestes techniques – enregistrement et manipulation du son fixé, situation acousmatique – que par des gestes intellectuels radicaux – suspension de la référence au contexte d’émission du son, refus de la perspective de la physique acoustique, donc de l’explication du phénomène sonore au profit de sa description morphologique, étude généralisée de nos fonctions d’écoute (acoulogie). Cette appréhension du son « pour lui-même », qui se pense comme une application de l’épochè phénoménologique à l’écoute (écoute réduite) nous invite à penser les rapports ambigus pouvant se tisser entre une esthétique musicale particulière et la philosophie de la perception qu’elle convoque pour penser son objet. Plus généralement, ce travail vise donc à décrire le rôle d’une certaine philosophie de la perception dans l’émergence d’une appréhension plastique du phénomène sonore, phénomène qui résiste pourtant d’emblée à l’objectivation.
This doctoral dissertation focuses on the concept of sound object, coined by the founder of the “musique concrète” aesthetic movement Pierre Schaeffer – who wrote several essays dedicated to the perception of sound within a musical perspective. In studying the genealogy of this concept which has become very popular in contemporary music, we first wish to show how the reunion of varied theoretical models helps to build an original aesthetic reflection – natural science, linguistics, and above all the philosophy of contemporary perception (phenomenology, structuralism and Gestalt theory). Indeed, the concept of sound object is the result of both technical gestures – recording and manipulation of the recorded sound, acousmatic situation – and intellectual and radical moves such as the absence of reference to the context of sound production, the refusal to use the theoretical frame of acoustic physics (thus enabling the morphological description of the sound phenomenon to take precedence over the explanation of such phenomenon), the general study of our listening functions (acoulogy). Such perception of the sound “for itself” is to be viewed as the application of the phenomenological epoché to the listening activity (reduced listening), and leads us to consider the ambiguous relationships between a particular musical aesthetics and the philosophy of perception required to analyse its object. More generally, our study thus intends to describe the role played by a certain philosophy of perception in the appearance of a plastic perception of the sound phenomenon, though such phenomenon initially resists objectification.
Wilfred Bion’s theories of dreaming, of the analytic situation, of reality and everyday life, and even of the contact between the body and the mind offer very different, and highly fruitful, ...perspectives on lived experience. Yet very little of his work has entered the field of visual culture, especially film and media studies. Kelli Fuery offers an engaging overview of Bion’s most significant contribution to psychoanalysis- his theory of thinking- and demonstrates its relevance for why we watch moving images.
Bion’s theory of thinking is presented as an alternative model for the examination of how we experience moving images and how they work as tools which we use to help us ‘think’ emotional experience. ‘Being Embedded’ is a term used to identify and acknowledge the link between thinking and emotional experience within the lived reception of cinema. It is a concept that everyone can speak to as already knowing, already having felt it - being embedded is at the core of lived and thinking experience. This book offers a return to psychoanalytic theory within moving image studies, contributing to the recent works that have explored object relations psychoanalysis within visual culture (specifically the writings of Klein and Winnicott), but differs in its reference and examination of previously overlooked, but highly pivotal, thinkers such as Bion, Bollas and Ogden. A theorization of thinking as an affective structure within moving image experience provides a fresh avenue for psychoanalytic theory within visual culture.
Wilfred Bion, Thinking, and Emotional Experience with Moving Images will appeal to psychoanalysts and psychoanalytic psychotherapists, as well as scholars and students of film and media studies, cultural studies and cultural sociology and anthropology, visual culture, media theory, philosophy, and psychosocial studies.
Through a study of the walking simulator genre, this paper focuses on game sound writing. First, Dear Esther: Landmark Edition (DE:LE) is presented as a well-documented example of the walking ...simulator genre. Then, a sound and semiopragmatic analysis of the first chapter of DE:LE explains how discursive strategies, aimed at subverting the first person shooter genre, are enacted by this game to signify its ludic proposition. Finally, this paper demonstrates how the experiences of DE:LE are framed by the creation of tensions within the acoustic ecology by an acousmatic narrator, which is identified as a genre-defining figure in the sound writing of the walking simulator.
This article provides an overview of the Music – Bodies – Machines: Fritz Kahn and Acousmatic Music project and accompanying suite of music – Der Industriepalast. The project is inspired by the work ...of infographics pioneer Fritz Kahn (1888-1968) who developed works such as Der Mensch als Industriepalast. There is a body of work examining Kahn’s work (Sappol, 2017; Von Debschitz, 2017; Doudova, Jacobs, et al.) that has revealed Kahn’s intent of making the human anatomy accessible to the non-specialised reader through visual metaphors; unlike the descriptive anatomical illustrations of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, which show how the human body looks, Kahn’s works visually explain how internal structures work using concepts, metaphors, and allusions.
This article explores some of the ways in which Kahn’s striking visual images have inspired the composition of five novel acousmatic works of music. The article starts with a survey of existing works making use of similar, extra-musical influences to examine how extra-musical influences such as infographics and painting may influence the formal design of acousmatic music. It goes on to consider how, exactly, the infographics of Fritz Kahn have been used within the project. In some cases, this guides the choice of particular materials (such as the sound of a beating heart to represent an image of a heart monitor), but in other cases, there is influence on phrasing, placement, and even the formal design of entire pieces.
Taken as a whole, the article seeks to explore the following questions; 1) What impact does the context of a particular image have on a composers’ response? 2) How do composers respond to visual stimuli in acousmatic music? What is their compositional process? 3) How do such parallels between the specific sonic and visual examples offer new interdisciplinary insight to artistic practices and research? 4) How do sound recording techniques inform acousmatic music and generate new creative processes that operate within the sphere of human-machine relations?
The film Siamo donne (We, the Women, 1953), written by Cesare Zavattini and divided into five episodes, represents an iconic case study to observe women of different ages and belonging to distinct ...generations. On the one hand, the first episode focuses on the ambitions of the young girls participating at the contest “Four stars and a starlet”; on the other hand, the following episodes, starring four celebrities playing the part of themselves, highlights the disillusions and regrets of mature women both in their private and professional life. Work, household, motherhood, and nostalgia are the main topics that interrelate with the portrayals of female aging provided by each episode. The film is a valuable opportunity to reflect upon the practices of cinema consumption and stardom in the 50s, especially from the contestants’ point of view. Throughout the analysis, we will also pay attention to voice over narration and the function of acousmatic voice as a memory device and expression of female subjectivity.
In the night’s stay, where pulsate the origins (Alexandria, Milan, Mexico), Italo-Mexican poet Fabio Morábito (Alexandria, 1955) works to turn the language towards poetic inflammation. Since the very ...first collection, writing intimately binds to the night, where it is lodged, built and thought of in an inbetweenness, writing on the borders of the first idiom – the family and nomadic Italian – and of the adopted Spanish as the palimpsest of the intimate breath. So the lyrical gesture always seems to question, in the momentum of the verses, the part of the advance and that of the reversal of a voice constantly reconquered to strangeness. We intend here to examine the desire of night of a poet both "watchman" on the edge and arouser of the nocturnal sensibility, awakener of the backlight language of the poem and nocturnal voyeur, poet wanderer, stealthy stealer of words and images or iconic vampire. He will be also a "shaper", transforming the night of the language – the nocturnality of the Italian left behind – into deep breathing, into secret and disturbing rhythm of poems captured through dark.
Stone as Witness Collins, Sarah
Angelaki : journal of theoretical humanities,
07/2023, Letnik:
28, Številka:
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Journal Article
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The depiction of stones that speak has long been used as a literary and philosophical device to reflect upon the limitations of human language (i.e., language as a petrification of thought and ...action). Jacques Rancière has described stone's capacity to bear witness as a form of "mute speech," noting how "any stone can also be language," as a part of the "testimony that mute things bear to mankind's activity." In exploring the character of this form of testimony, and asking how we hear it, this article examines the function of the Stone Guest in the legend of Don Juan, across Molière's and Pushkin's theatrical versions, a short film version by Marina Fomenko, and Mozart and Da Ponte's operatic version, so revered by Kierkegaard and others. The character of the Stone Guest is often seen as casting judgement against the aesthetic mode of life, yet the power of the character lies not in his ghostly humanity or sense of retribution, but in his stoniness - his capacity to bear witness, just as a stone monument bears witness or commemorates a past trauma. In a number of versions of the Don Juan story, the Stone Guest is announced by approaching footsteps or knocking. This acousmatic device mirrors the uncanny separation of sound and source in opera - the way in which music mediates between the conflicting imperatives of language and the corporeal or material aspects of the singing voice, lending opera its vaunted mechanical qualities. Using stones that speak as a heuristic, the article draws together ideas about the limitations of language and the mechanical qualities of opera in order to excavate the auditory affordances of the stone's form of testimony, in all its inorganic liveliness.
Radio is a medium that traffics first and foremost in disembodied voices. English Canadian radio drama has historically drawn upon the eeriness of the disembodied voice as an aesthetic object, and it ...has done so in an outsized fashion when compared with other national contexts. This trope of the disembodied or acousmatic voice draws upon a relationship to place defined by an experience of alienation and the conceits of settler colonialism. In radio, it expresses Canada's unique relationship to technological mediation, given the central role of technology in major nation-building projects and the anxieties that stem from technologically-mediated economic and cultural imperialism from south of the border. The themes of excess, dislocation, and alienation associated with technological mediation and conveyed in the disembodied voice recur throughout nearly a century of CBC radio dramas. This paper attempts to make sense of this trope through Mark Fisher's conception of "the eerie" as a distinct aesthetic form. It is a form that is shaped by the larger socio-cultural context within which it operates, but which also inheres with the potential to both reproduce and challenge those socio-cultural underpinnings.
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