Listening to Anthropocene: An Alternative Model for Earthly Survival.

Abstract

In a comparative analysis of Western and Native American and African cultures and what sense is superior in each in perceiving the reality, it becomes clear that different societies engage whether to their environment, humans and non-human species accordingly to the sense they rely on. Unlike Western societies that rely on visual information, cultures that use tonality in their languages and music prove that culturally do not use binary systems. Unlike the language in the West the sound in indigenous societies is mobile and it does not have a dialectical dynamic. At the same time it does not stand apart from Western languages but unlike it listening to sound creates a fluid and engaged process of symbolization. It offers access to the production of meaning as the tendency to speak. Therefore, the sonic-symbolic subject is perceived as a more precise experience, it gives an audio-visual artist a chance to overcome the self in the center of that experience. Acoustic ecology is capable of expanding social phenomena, where through encounters, we inhabit the world in a better way. As a result as a society, we acquire more culture with alternative modes of exchange, production, and post-production such as listening and sound making. Acoustic ecology suggests considering different kinds of perspectives. By writing a script in space we are thinking temporary and ephemerally. Which led me to write a story that took space in a place using digitally-programmed interface to activate space which gave it utilitarian functions and poetic suggestions.