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Columbus's Ships ...26/3/2016 It has been theorised that Native Americans may have been unable to see Columbus's ships on the horizon when they fist appeared because they were so far removed from anything they had previously encountered and that the image of these types of vessels did not enter their visual reality until the ships had reached the shore. Sounds that are new or foreign to us can also operate in this stealth like fashion, seemingly undetectable until we have new ears and aural perspectives with which to hear them ... and like with Columbus's ships these sounds may also have the same potential to impact us.
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11:00am studio break from #workingtheeartothebone and today’s self-directed soundwalk photo: The sound of mattock and shovel digging into the earth where I live. Making connections with place, thinking about unearthing the history of this site, and as I am in Australia thinking about the Aboriginal spirits of this site: asking their permission to break the soil. Linking the sound of mattock and shovel digging into the earth to my childhood memories of growing up on a farm where I was allocated a space behind the chicken shed to cultivate my own garden of choice (beans, pumpkins, lettuces, water melons and zucchinis … ). Making connections between my own physicality and linking these sounds somatically. Also, while swinging the mattock, digging deep into my mind and thinking about the concept of genetic memories ... trying to uncover these untilled memories of my pagan ancestors and how these sounds could have been heard as sonic symbols of re-birth, fertility and re-connection with Mother Earth.
Now I am back in the studio - with my #earstothegrindstone - digging up other sonic ideas! #soundwalk #colinblack #soundculture #doctorblacksoundwalks an acoustic public playground!10/3/2016 6:30pm studio break from #workingtheeartothebone and today’s soundwalk photo: The the resonating ascoutics of the underpass to the park with its 3000ms decay time and where just seconds after this photo was taken a family entered the underpass yelling "cooee" and "hello" ... some might call this underpass an acoustic public playground! :)
Now I am back in the studio thinking about the impulse responses, early reflections, diffusion, density, room sizes, decay times, damping, high frequency attenuation/decay, low frequency attenuation/decay, width and modulation ... #soundwalk #colinblack #soundculture #doctorblacksoundwalks Dr Black's Sound BlogA collections of thought's about sound culture Archives
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