TY - JOUR
T1 - Wavefront Aesthetics
T2 - Attuning to a dark ecology
AU - Højlund, Marie
AU - Riis, Morten S.
PY - 2015/7/7
Y1 - 2015/7/7
N2 - In this article, we offer an object-oriented ontological perspective to complement the diversity of sounding ontologies, challenging the human perspective as the only valid perspective and call for the necessity of including perspectives of objects such as a speakers, voices and light sensors. Subscribing to this view also confronts music and sound art as consistent autonomous categories and focuses on how the pieces attune to the environment, emphasising meetings, transformations and translations through and with other objects. These meetings generate an ecological awareness of causal aesthetics where objects time and space each other. This contrasts with traditional analysis of music and sound art, which is based on the assumption that time and space are containers in which sound and music unfold. We analyse two contemporary pieces by the authors in an attempt to unfold a dark ecological1 approach to test the implications, limits and potentials for future use and development.
AB - In this article, we offer an object-oriented ontological perspective to complement the diversity of sounding ontologies, challenging the human perspective as the only valid perspective and call for the necessity of including perspectives of objects such as a speakers, voices and light sensors. Subscribing to this view also confronts music and sound art as consistent autonomous categories and focuses on how the pieces attune to the environment, emphasising meetings, transformations and translations through and with other objects. These meetings generate an ecological awareness of causal aesthetics where objects time and space each other. This contrasts with traditional analysis of music and sound art, which is based on the assumption that time and space are containers in which sound and music unfold. We analyse two contemporary pieces by the authors in an attempt to unfold a dark ecological1 approach to test the implications, limits and potentials for future use and development.
UR - http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=9831115&fileId=S1355771815000138
U2 - 10.1017/S1355771815000138
DO - 10.1017/S1355771815000138
M3 - Journal article
SN - 1355-7718
VL - 20
SP - 249
EP - 262
JO - Organised Sound
JF - Organised Sound
IS - 02
ER -