At the Edge of the Audible
Emma McCormick-Goodhart
This chapter, in the edited volume, Articulating Media: Genealogy, Interface, Situation emerges from McCormick-Goodhart’s MA research at the CRA.
Can we try to de-suppose the sophisticated wetware and media of our senses, which lead us to perceive as if by magic? In this essay, there are two dynamics at play: the from within of hearing, and the from without of space. I propose to trace how vibration becomes apprehensible as sound, via the transductive technology of our sense of hearing, before musing o its purported absence, as in deafness, where a ‘sounding’ sense of hearing is often substituted for by the inscriptive technography of sign language within heightened, mediatised environments known as DeafSpace. The aim ultimately, is to prompt our reconsideration of concepts of sonic literacy, and even sound as such.
Read “At the Edge of the Audible“ here
Can we try to de-suppose the sophisticated wetware and media of our senses, which lead us to perceive as if by magic? In this essay, there are two dynamics at play: the from within of hearing, and the from without of space. I propose to trace how vibration becomes apprehensible as sound, via the transductive technology of our sense of hearing, before musing o its purported absence, as in deafness, where a ‘sounding’ sense of hearing is often substituted for by the inscriptive technography of sign language within heightened, mediatised environments known as DeafSpace. The aim ultimately, is to prompt our reconsideration of concepts of sonic literacy, and even sound as such.
Read “At the Edge of the Audible“ here