When listening to David Byrne’s\u00a0\u201cPlaying the Building\u201d, we can hear sounds that are from the specific building that Byrne’s is in. He makes the sounds unique because of if he were to redo everything he did inside another building, different sounds would be made. It changes because of the different infrastructure inside the building. When looking at Rath, we can see a difference between Byrne and Rath, Rath believes that soundscapes are made depending on culture and religion. Rath gave an example of the European Church, and how the chancel was constructed specifically to make the priest face away from the congregation. Rath said that because of this the priest’s “voice never carried directly to the listeners in the nave. It began its trip toward them as an echo.”(131) Rath also gave an example of the Chesapeake\u00a0Anglicans, and their Jamestown Chapel, the structure of the church is different compared to the European Church because “where one [person] was seated was an indicator of social standing. Those in the front heard more of the direct signal. Those in the back heard less of it, and thus more reverberation\u201d (135). Raths theory of how there is a connection between sounds and religion and these ideas can connect to Blesser and Salter’s idea of earcons. Blesser and Salter wrote about how the Mayans had excellent “auditory spatial awareness.”(189) People have heard howling and whistling from the wind when they were at the Mayan ruins. This means that every structure has a deliberate purpose when it comes to the sound it makes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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