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2. Medium, Message, Materiality: Sound Studies for Aural Cultures

Library Service Talk

Today’s lesson started with a 30-minute library service talk from Andrea Miles.

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Sound Studies and Anural Culters

Revise Week 1: Introduction

What is an Audio Paper?

Unlike an academic paper where the format is established an audio paper offers you a different and complementary way

Thinking about my Audio Paper?

Be aware that creating a narrative isn’t giving the full truth. What do I want to say and how do I explore how I relate personally?

An Idea for My Project

Paying attention in class can be hard sometimes, there are lots of distractions which got me thinking about possibly adding intense distractions in my audio paper for example loud high heels and toilets and hand dryers.

Medium, Message, Materiality

The topic ‘Digital’ is a key theme to unpack, our generation is the first to grow up in a fully digital experience…

How do we understand the production of social difference?

Class, Age, How We Are Grown Up? and speech for example accent. Sound and Power? An accent in a certain room carries power or can cause you to be perceived as powerless from others’ judgment.

What is the relationship between sound and power? 

A very important sound of London is the police and emergency services. Very overpowering and what can we do nothing? Sound, we can’t choose to listen to. 

Constructing a sense of self? 

What we are giving our attention to, is the world that we see it as. 

Reading from last week’s follow-up task

Connor and Trammel and the human clap. Reading this gave me an understanding of how something so simple as the human clap can hold history. Human clap can be used as a demand unfortunately used towards servants and for something completely and morally different like applause to show gratitude. It is important to research something history as discovery can be influential towards the inspiration of work.

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