Aural Tectonics(2020)
After the pleasant experience, I tried to figure
out how my hearing structured through notating the
atmosphere in an explicit form.
I took an exchange workshop named Aural Tectonics by
Raviv Ganchrow in the Sonology department.
The description of the workshop was as followed:
“Aural Tectonics explores the site-specificity and contextdependency of in-situ sound and hearing by fostering a critical
awareness of, and attitudes towards, environmental ambience.
Founded in a practice-based approach, the workshop develops
situated strategies for listening, recording, sound montage and
mapping as well as experimental approaches for contextual
sound synthesis and site-specific interventions.”
The workshop dealt with the ‘Atmospheric acoustic’ and entailed an assignment: a) find the Sounding Atmosphere in/around home b) draw a schematic diagram c) reconstruct the Atmosphere into an audio file. I was mainly interested in representing the atmosphere through the explicit form of schematic diagrams.
I thought: ‘How interesting! As soon as I try to describe a subjective experience through an explicit form (diagram) it loses its sensory effect. Further, if I try to close the gap between the effect of the sensory experience and language representation, the diagram is getting too complex.’ After trying for several hours to bridge both elements I gave up.
The funny thing, however, was that the diagram looks a bit like abstract art.
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After the pleasant experience of the workshop, I try to figure out how my hearing structured through notating the atmosphere in an explicit form.
The workshop dealt with the ‘Atmospheric acoustic’ and entailed an assignment: a) find the Sounding Atmosphere in/around home b) draw a schematic diagram c) reconstruct the Atmosphere into an audio file. I was mainly interested in representing the atmosphere through the explicit form of schematic diagrams.
I thought: ‘How interesting! As soon as I try to describe a subjective experience through an explicit form (diagram) it loses its sensory effect. Further, if I try to close the gap between the effect of the sensory experience and language representation, the diagram is getting too complex.’ After trying for several hours to bridge both elements I gave up.
The funny thing, however, was that the diagram looks a bit like abstract art.
After the pleasant experience of the workshop, I try to figure out how my hearing structured through notating the atmosphere in an explicit form.
Audio Link 1 🖖️
March of the last year, we all punched into the face to, yes Big C. I am one of those who got it harsh, mentally.
So, before the total knockdown, I should go to my family house in South Korea. Surprisingly, I was having the same level of toughness, at the bottom of the family hierarchy and missed my liberal life in the Netherlands.
Probably, because of this dilemmatic situation, One day, I dreamt of the Netherlands. In the reality, I was in South Korea. As I am waking up slowly, the dream was mixing with reality. It was a wonderful moment, also interesting to see how two geographically distant spaces can merge and even interact in my perception. From there, the sound created abstractly. I draw the diagram of it, focus on how hearing experience built in the imaginary space, dream.
