{"id":355,"date":"2018-08-23T18:25:07","date_gmt":"2018-08-23T18:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wri-101c-f18.andrewrippeon.com\/blog\/?p=355"},"modified":"2018-08-23T18:25:07","modified_gmt":"2018-08-23T18:25:07","slug":"contextualizing-the-study-of-sound","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wri-101c-f18.andrewrippeon.com\/blog\/blog-02\/contextualizing-the-study-of-sound\/","title":{"rendered":"Contextualizing the Study of Sound"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Lucier, Aristotle and Sterne all sought to understand, as Stefan G. Helmreich put it, \u201cembodyment, the senses and how we understand those things scientifically, humanistically, culturally, philosophically\u201d in the respective mediums we watched, listened and read. What was very interesting was how each respective medium understood the senses, more specifically sound. Aristotle was one of the first human beings to think of asking the question of why exactly sound happens and what exactly happens when we hear a sound. His understanding of sound was more philosophical than Sterne, who explained that <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">the Sound Studies reader<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> was written with \u201csound students\u201d in mind. This scientific approach is even still different from Lucier\u2019s understanding. Although he stated that he was, in fact, conducting a scientific experiment of sorts, his experiment focused on the overall experience, hence why it is a sound clip for us to listen to rather than a book for us to read like <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">the Sound Studies Reader<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> is.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Elements of both Aristotle and Sterne\u2019s works are present in Lucier\u2019s \u201cI am Sitting in a Room\u201d. I can imagine the sound waves of the playback recordings bouncing off of the assumedly smooth walls of the room Lucier is in and I can also agree with Sterne on the fact that the lack of a visual representation of Lucier\u2019s experiment further immersed me in the audio experience. What Lucier\u2019s audio seems to do is tie all three of these pieces together by taking the written assumptions and contextualizing them. Lucier gives both Aristotle and Sterne an outlet with which to test their theories or the average Joe an opportunity to grasp just what they were talking about, even if he didn\u2019t originally intend to.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lucier, Aristotle and Sterne all sought to understand, as Stefan G. Helmreich put it, \u201cembodyment, the senses and how we understand those things scientifically, humanistically, culturally, philosophically\u201d in the respective mediums we watched, listened and read. What was very interesting was how each respective medium understood the senses, more specifically sound. Aristotle was one of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-blog-02","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wri-101c-f18.andrewrippeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wri-101c-f18.andrewrippeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wri-101c-f18.andrewrippeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wri-101c-f18.andrewrippeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wri-101c-f18.andrewrippeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=355"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wri-101c-f18.andrewrippeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":356,"href":"https:\/\/www.wri-101c-f18.andrewrippeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355\/revisions\/356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wri-101c-f18.andrewrippeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wri-101c-f18.andrewrippeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wri-101c-f18.andrewrippeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}