Questions for Listen Link of the project: https://balamronan.net/preguntasparalaescucha/ "Modernity has been read and observed carefully but rarely heard." Doglas Kahn Objective The objective of the project is to invite people to listen to their city and its diverse environments and surroundings, in a slightly more conscious way. This, through actions that are inserted into the everyday, such as the use of stickers, posters, stencils and blankets, also quite common to see in a city. The Listen The sounds of the medium are intimately related to the culture where they are produced; "The sounds heard have specific meanings", [1] which can represent an hour of the day, a season of the year, the existence of a specific place in the city, etc. Our perception, and therefore our hearing, is adapted to the stimuli we usually receive, informs us about the environment and surroundings, serves as a means of protection or alert in situations of danger or distress. The sounds influence the daily behaviors, "they are presented to our ears in multiple ways, with different meanings and messages: word, music, noises, each with its own codes that produce different reactions, feelings and sensations", [2] contribute in the modification of the posture, the rhythm of an activity, the orientation in space ... affecting the human being in multiple ways, "defining and contributing a particular quality to time and space." [3] "Noises and sounds are necessary in life, they are the sign of the presence of another person, the manifestation of social life, a way of existing." [4] "Attentive listening to the environment and sound environment allows us to pass from a simple description of the sounds to the analysis of the relationships that exist between the human being, sounds and places." [5] However, we hardly pay attention to sound experiences. Several factors contribute to this: the distancing of nature, the existence of greater comfort, the over-saturation of sound stimuli that hinder the processing of the information transmitted by said stimuli, among others. But, in spite of this loss of protagonism of the auditory sense, "our relationship with the medium depends unquestionably on the sound stimuli of the medium, whether we are aware of it or not". [6] It is necessary to recover and demand listening to generate new ways of relating and understanding our context, "rediscover dimensions of our daily life little taken into account." [7] "It is necessary to recover and reclaim the importance of the sound in everyday life as an element of communication, information and transmission of emotions." [8] More we understand our environment, how we relate to others, to ourselves and to the spaces and places we inhabit, more we will know about ourselves." [9] "Listening then becomes a necessary act because of the openness it implies towards new forms of knowledge as individuals, as a community and as a society." [10] Development Pierre Schaeffer, Pascal Amphoux, Jean-Franรงois Augoyard, among others, have carried out different research on listening, starting from diverse disciplines and postulates, getting to theorize and propose different ways of approaching listening. I'm going to start with Pascal Amphoux's text "Urban Sound Landscape. Introduction to listening to the city", where he develops three ideas: - First: There are local sound cultures that form both the production and the collective representations of the urban soundscape. What does it mean? It means that our belonging to a particular culture (national, regional, social or professional) determines, at least partially, our productions (the sounds we emit) as our sound perceptions (our ways of listening, of understanding). - Second: There are universal listening modalities that, independently of the local sound cultures, determine the individual perception of the soundscape.
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