During the week six seminar we discussed sonic materialism of which included debating the meaning of noise and silence. I found discussing that sound is aways in more than one place particularly interesting as the meaning of it encapsulates the physical aspects of a sound wave and its tendency to escape away from the space it was meant to be heard within. We also discussed using sound as the artistic material, like Christina Kubisch’s ‘Electrical Walks’ which I find a profoundly fascinating way to demonstrate using sound as a material to show the absolute chaos of suburban environments due to technological, industrial and electrical increases. Also, the fact that these electromagnetic emissions are not directly sound waves but are a completely different phenomenon gives us an insight into inaudible noise pollution.

Reference Task:

Quote – ‘In the process, Leneghan questions standard bio-medical and bio-psychological studies of ecstasy, arguing that the standard methodology is overly mechanistic and/or materialistic, and ignores the lived experience of ecstasy-altered consciousness’ (Schnee, 2004, p. 70)

Paraphrase – Medical and psychological studies are an inferior way to study the effects of ecstasy as strict scientific measurements or ways of gathering data do not include the subjects own personal experiences (Schnee 70)

Bibliographical entry – Schnee, D. (2004) “The Varieties of Ecstasy Experience (Sean Leneghan),” Dancecult, 6(2), pp. 70–72. Available at: https://doi.org/10.12801/1947-5403.2014.06.02.06.