Heroic Silences, Villainous Noises

Heroic Silences

& Villainous Sounds

“With noise is born disorder and its

opposite: the world.”

1.Enchanting Music 2.Music-ish3.Neutral4.Noisey5.Unadulterated Noise

“Every sensory interaction relates back to us not the

object/phenomenon perceived,

but that object/phenomenon filtered, shaped and produced by the sense(s) employed in its

perception.”

“…any organization of sounds is then

a tool for the creation or

consolidation of a community…”

“Americans have perceived sound as dangerously porous and

transgressive, spilling over and across imagined boundaries

between public and private….Noise has regularly marked the limit of

what neighbors have been willing to tolerate.”

Silence Sound

Silence

Good Sounds

Bad Sounds

“Sound is caused by and

associated with things in motion.”

Silence is the absence of motion.

Silence CHARACTER

Sound

LANGUAGE/METAPHORCONTROL MECHANISM

PRIVILEGEPARTICIPATION

TIMEHISTORY

LISTENING

SOUNDSILENCE

Silence Sound

Good Sounds

Bad SoundsNOISE

“The loiterer remains still in spaces where continual movement is encouraged –shops, stations,

fast-food outlets and car parks…Weaponized classical music, then, aims to remove this blockage, to

smooth out this disruption, to inhibit stillness.”

“….sound appears simultaneously as a force that constitutes the world

and a medium for constructing knowledge

about it.”

ArthurSchopenhauer

1788-1860

Thomas Carlyle

1795-1881

MODERN LIFE

PACE+

NOISE=

“Noise, defined as unwanted sound, is a pollutant whose effects on health

have been neglected, despite the ability

to precisely measure or calculate exposure from peak levels

or energy averaged over time.”

Who wrote this fiendish Rite of SpringWhat right had he to write the thing,

Against our helpless ears to flingIts crash, clash, cling, clang, bing, bang, bing?

And then to call it Rite of Spring,the season when on joyous wingThe birds melodious carols singAnd harmony’s in everything!

He who could write the Rite of Spring,If I be right, by right should swing!”

-anonymous review in Boston Herald, 1924

“…the reformulations of perceptions of space and time as

one of the signposts of modernity.”

Is the world noisier than it was previously?