Essays
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Poetic Presence: New Environments in Media Arts
Currently, we are living in strange and surreal times under the spectre of a global virus pandemic. An aggravated sense of social alienation is exacerbated by a thriving social media, with nonstop bombardment of information. Often this vociferous…
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THE BIG BANG and what we left behind (or, hearing loss) | Essay by Samuel Hertz
A message from the editor… How time passes, and how time is felt passing, how time is personal and ever changing its costumes and definitions. Within that what is a moment. Within that what is an event. What is shared,…
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The Thingness of Sound | Essay by Mandy-Suzanne Wong
[‘Thinking Resonance’ is a series articles based on a bidirectional relation considered between sound and thinking, approaching the interstice between thinking about and/or through sound/listening, that is, sonority both as object of study and as speculative/critical device] The Thingness of Sound…
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Particular Sounds That Made A Difference | Essay by Thomas Park
Part of the ongoing series: WAYBACK SOUND MACHINE, A CONSTELLATION OF SOUNDING TIME A message from the editor: In this soundtracked text, we can listen to a past, and experience the soundscape of a home for twelve years, while…
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THE CALL OF THE WILD | Essay by Erik DeLuca
Part of the ongoing series: WAYBACK SOUND MACHINE, A CONSTELLATION OF SOUNDING TIME A message from the editor: There was a point of time in the wild, as the wild was becoming less wild, when listening became not as much an…
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Defining Tradition of Sound Culture: Questioning The Importance of Authenticity | Essay by Guoda Dirzyte
“In the future varying cultures will be unified and, assisted by technology, eventually we will have a global culture” [1] It is difficult to talk about contemporary sound culture or cultures in general, their traditions and heritage while living in…