son weis wave

‘sound’, rather than being a destination, has been a potent and necessary means for accessing and understanding the world; in effect, it leads away from itself. A very nebulous notion of methodology, but also something that kicks in before methodology.

Every act of perception, is to some degree an act of creation, and every act of memory is to some degree an act of imagination.

Sound and the Self

Sound v Noise v Music?

One of the ways in which individuals make such simultaneous realisations of society and space is through the act of musical consumption. Indeed musical consumption has proved to be both a particularly distinctive and enduring medium for collective reconstruction of public space. To map the public space of any industrial or post-industrial conurbation in terms of the patterns of musical consumption which exist there is to discover a series of shifting and overlapping territories.

we live in an era where quotation and sampling operate on such a deep level that the archaeology of what can be called ‘knowledge’ floats in a murky realm between the real and the unreal