Resumo

Crítica à noção de ‘som', tal que, vernacularmente - mas sobretudo entre artistas e músicos do mundo ocidental - a construímos e entendemos. A experiência de escuta tem sido construída de maneira a quase podermos ver os ‘sons’, como se fossem objetos (nem sempre identificados) voando no espaço. Esse texto apresenta uma tentativa para devolver um pouco da integridade dessa experiência.

Sound Isn’t a Thing in Itself, but a Carrier for Leaking Things

The listening experience has been studied and described in ways that it is almost as if one could “see” sounds as objects flying in a space - most of them fortunately unidentified. I will juxtapose a few propositions which, for some years, I have been dealing with and writing about, trying to sum these articles ” intentions in one and the same: to prevent us against the faith on the neutrality and the universality of cultural constructed perceptions, and to recover a more wholesome mode of listening - if not in the general day-to -day life, at least in the artistic field.