URBAN PLANNING AND THE ROLE OF LISTENING MARCEL COBUSSEN (LEIDEN - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

URBAN PLANNING AND THE ROLE OF LISTENING MARCEL COBUSSEN (LEIDEN UNIVERSITY, THE NETHERLANDS)

SONIC POSTCARDS • A SONIC POSTCARD FROM ROTTERDAM-ZUID • WHAT AND HOW CAN ARTISTS CONTRIBUTE TO THE WAY WE THINK ABOUT SONIC AMBIANCES? • ANSWER: SOUND ARTISTS (MAKE US) LISTEN DIFFERENTLY • EXAMPLE 1: PIERRE SCHAEFFER - ETUDE AUX CHEMINS DE FER (1948) • EXAMPLE 2: HELMUT LACHENMANN – GUERO (1970) • EXAMPLE 3: JOHN CAGE – 4’33” (1951)

THE ETHICO-AESTHETIC ATTITUDE OF SOUND ARTISTS • AESTHETIC ATTITUDE: IMMANUEL KANT’S “PURPOSIVENESS WITHOUT A PURPOSE” • ETHICAL ATTITUDE: ELAINE SCARRY’S “STANDARD OF PERPETUAL CARE”

CODA • JEAN-LUC NANCY: “WHAT SECRET IS AT STAKE WHEN ONE TRULY LISTENS, THAT IS, WHEN ONE TRIES TO CAPTURE THE SONORITY RATHER THAN THE MESSAGE? WHAT SECRET IS YIELDED WHEN WE LISTEN TO A VOICE, AN INSTRUMENT, OR A SOUND JUST FOR ITSELF ?”

THANK YOU! MARCEL COBUSSEN (LEIDEN UNIVERSITY, THE NETHERLANDS) “URBAN PLANNING AND THE ROLE OF LISTENING”