Definition of Ethnography from wikipedia: Ethnography is a branch of anthropology and the systematic study of individual cultures. Ethnography explores cultural phenomena from the point of view of the subject of the study.
Google meaning of Meaning-Making: Connecting Inner and Outer Worlds – While sense-making focuses on understanding the external world, meaning-making bridges the gap between external experiences and internal interpretation. It is a process of interpreting situations or events based on personal knowledge and experiences.
Today’s session is about Listening and how we can create meaning through our sense, very interesting topic to be honest, I am delving more and more into this course and learning so much. I realized that I am seriously taking a lot of things for granted.
Listening and Sound – Sound that the city produces – city as a sonic. the two tests we had to read was: https://drive.google.com/file/d/14DpqDJExeiDWGRgGEc1npaRAMWmLfNhD/view
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-t81FWHvPYgVkw39x6ywPUjSweu9VwcY/view
Summary of REE – https://www.wob.com/en-ie/books/jonathan-ree/i-see-a-voice/9780002557931
What is so special about the human voice? The relationship between the ear and the voice is unique among the senses. While we cannot emit light or smell or flavour at will, we control, unconsciously or consciously, the sounds that come from our mouths. For this reason, many thinkers, most notably Freud, have seen the voice as the outward expression of the soul. Careful listening to the voices of others, it was felt, would lay bare your innermost fears and desires. But given such an intimate connection between hearing and speaking, what has been the fate of those born deaf? How have they found ways of communicating? Ree’s book uses fable and anecdote to examine the extraordinary treatment through the ages of the mute in Western culture. In doing so he uncovers some wonderful stories: the conflict between those who used sign language and who sought a deaf homeland and the “oralists” of Britain and Germany, who believed that the deaf should be integrated into society by being taught how to speak. Ree spins these observations and stories together to create a new genre: philosophical history, which is neither a philosophy of what history is, nor a history of ideas. Rather, it attempts to write history from an accessibly philosophical point of view.
Summary of NANCY –
After years and years of debate, has music studies come to a consensus on how to relate culturalist and historicist claims about music to formal claims? Or are most analytical approaches still to external to musical experience? In Charlotte Mandell’s splendid translation of Jean-Luc Nancy’s brief but passionate À l’écoute, the French philosopher gives us a glimpse of a completely different philosophy of music. Uninterested in wresting out the dialectic between immaterial structure and the materiality of a self-evident cultural practice, Nancy’s notion of music in Listening (as Mandell has translated in À l’écoute) respects no proper distinction between subject (listeners, participants, composers, musicians, or otherwise) and object (say, a thing or phenomenon of organized sound). Nancy prefers to think of music as the becoming-sound of sense; this means his book is not so much a “philosophy of music” in the regular sense of the phrase as it is a philosophy of listening.
It’s important we lace philosophy in listening. Philosophy takes a lot for granted and becomes inwardly focused. Summary is about what we are reading rather than what we think we are reading. We need to be able to understand and summarize what we are reading.
Is the voice the window to the soul ? Are we using our senses to full? The quality of the room tone is interesting because silence has tones. The silence of your space, and every space has a different tone.
Systems thinking: What is it? what does it mean? Systems thinking is a holistic approach to analysis that focuses on the way that a system’s constituent parts interrelate and how systems work over time and within the context of larger systems.
Cross cutting competencies- system thinking competency: the abilities to recognize and understand relationships; to analyze complex systems; to think of how systems are embedded within different domains [contexts] and different sales; and to deal with uncertainty.
The relationship between context, complex and connectivity. which is what we need to attend for in our video. A certain system perhaps that organizes their context, others will use it visually or mapping through their curiosity.
Addressing systems in our videos through systems and proximity, what cause and affect do they have against each other? Sensuous knowledge coming through our 5 senses, not only from our heads but also our bodies. Understanding context, complexity and connectivity from the body. Diagnostic of systems, desire, how would we like it to work better ? We should approach this video from a more “summary” kind of way. We need to understand it in its own terms, we need to take stock of what’s there, are we talking about a building, paper or what exactly. We need to be more objective because we are trying to understand what this is and how it makes us feel. One dimension is being objective, descriptive etc. Second dimension is sensuous from the perspective of taste, where things are more subjective, it’s more of our own experience. A third dimension is speculative, being available to systems, what is it going to be like 10/20 years time. How are we finding things now, however we need to think also about what the future might hold and finally we the 4th dimension would be to be curious, is there even a system. Is the system efficient enough ?
I need to think how I need to lace all these dimensions together into context, complexity and connectivity in my video. Hopefully the video will be all of the above.
lets hope I do a good job !