Category: Sound Studies and Aural Cultures

Final Script

Things cleared up. Somehow. I ended up with a much simpler script than I started. Which I am happy about. I gave up on a lot of ideas and points I wanted to make and stuck to the initial topic: language and meaning, English as a second language, bilingualism and identity. I decided to stick… Continue reading Final Script

Too Much?

I have been struggling with writing a script. I am struggling to find the right mix between academic and idiosyncratic. I remember in the first class Mark asked us to think what kind of editors we are. And try to start from there. I like divergence. I like sharp unmediated cuts. I like meaning to… Continue reading Too Much?

Mélia Roger

Last Visit Practitioner Lecture of the semester. I will be mentioning two of the pieces presented that strongly correlate to the subject of my current research. From French Through Spanish ‘Using a language translator application, I pronounce a phrase in French and listen to the corresponding word in Spanish. Then, I repeat the same sentence… Continue reading Mélia Roger

Script?

Some people have a lot of resonance and vibration in their head – the nose, sinuses and bones of the face. This is not a bad thing in itself, for it gives the tone a kind of brilliance, but it is bad if it overbalances the chest notes, because it gets a metallic quality –… Continue reading Script?

Man Is a Sound Chamber

‘From radios to telephones, phonautographs to speaking machines, modernity opened up a space for a range of vocal coordinates defined by electronic imagination.’ [1] Sound poetry, later developed into Lettrism and Ultra-Lettrism, operated on two main ideas: 1. the attempt to come to terms with scientific and technological development, the humanisation of the machine, the… Continue reading Man Is a Sound Chamber

Look Who’s Talking

One of the topics I am considering in my audio paper is the relationship between the voice and technology. The desire to mimic the human voice. How it influences what we think of as synthetic/natural. What we deem as immediate/mediated. We speak a lot of the digital voice. Assigned to the introduction of the internet.… Continue reading Look Who’s Talking

Beyond the Mother Tongue

 study reveals that the central motivation behind this phenomenon was not simply practical but also tied up with what the women consistently articulated as “desire” and “longing” (akogare) for a different female existence: “the turn to the foreign has become perhaps the most important means currently at women’s disposal to resist gendered expectations of the female life course in Japan” (Women on the Verge 2) (165)  Kelsky argues that the “liberatory potential of the West,” as these women define it, “is intertwined with desire… Continue reading Beyond the Mother Tongue