With the invention of recorded sound in the late 19th Century new demands on the processes of human consciousness transfigured the way we perceive the world. In this new mirror all perceivable sounds were reflected back to us, and into us, and for the first time since the invention of alphabetic script, the hegemony of […]
Poetry has concerned itself too much with words. Language and oral communication are now highly mediated by the technologies we have created. Yet the potency of allegory; narrative; repetition; methods for patterning sound and meter; are still capable of transcendence. Poets should apply their understanding of these powerful, mnemonic techniques not just to the written […]
The first realisation of Agostino Di Scipio’s Audible Ecosystemic Interface Study: Background Noise at Inspace, Edinburgh, 2010. This was part of a team Digital Media Studio Project while studying for an MSc at Edinburgh University. Di Scipio’s intention is to make an autonomous, self-regulating system where the environment itself becomes the integral component of the […]