Humming As Sonic Art


Auditory Spatial Awareness
May 21, 2007, 10:17 pm
Filed under: Audio art, Aural, Community, Ear, Health, Hum, Montreal, Music, Nasal, Sonic, Spirituality, Throat, Voice

From the Barry Blesser book about acoustic architecture:
in a section called

    Social Spheres and Acoustic Arenas

Ownership rules of an arena are created informally when two or more individuals congregate for a social interchange. Territorial bubbles appear as if by magic around a group of individuals if they begin to interact, and the group quickly acquires rights to the arena. When encountering such a social bubble with its implied acoustic arena, outsiders are reluctant to intervene or to create sonic events (Lindskold et al., 1976). The strength of ownership rights to an acoustic arena depends on the distance between individuals, their perceived status, and the nature of their interactions. Cultures assign implicit rights to acoustic arenas, and there are complex unwritten rules governing the size of an arena being claimed.

Doesn’t this just speak tomes of what the HMMM on St. Laurent could be??? It reminds me that it is important for all the stimulators to remain a good distance from each other.


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