Listening(s) Past

IF 0.9 4区 社会学 Q2 CULTURAL STUDIES Representations Pub Date : 2021-05-01 DOI:10.1525/REP.2021.154.11.143
Nicholas Mathew
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This essay is about the long-standing and tenacious audile technique of listening past—that is, the discrimination of music, musical performances, and even sound amid the ostensibly broader range of vibrations conveyed by any media form. For some time, an assortment of musicians, sound artists, and theoreticians have lined up to maintain that this cognitive-discursive technique, which suppresses or diminishes the processes of mediation, is in some sense ideological: illusory, contingent, and even exclusionary. Cagean theories of sound, feminist valorizations of embodiment and presence, ecological ethics of the soundscape, tech-focused philosophies of mediation, ethnographic conceptions of aurality, and Deleuzian vibrational ontologies—all are united in their foundational skepticism. Centered on digital transfer of an early electric recording of a performance of Beethoven’s Sixth from 1927 conducted by Felix Weingartner, this essay seeks to reevaluate the political implications of listening past by drawing out its submerged relationships to the traditional historicist project of recovering what I call past listenings—lost modes of listening that are supposedly indivisible from particular spaces, historical moments, and radically situated subjectivities.
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过去的听力
这篇文章是关于长期而顽强的倾听过去的听觉技巧,也就是说,在任何媒体形式所传达的表面上更广泛的振动中,对音乐、音乐表演甚至声音的辨别。一段时间以来,各种各样的音乐家、声音艺术家和理论家一直在坚持这种认知话语技巧,它压制或削弱了调解过程,在某种意义上是意识形态的:虚幻的、偶然的,甚至是排斥性的。卡根的声音理论、体现和存在的女权主义价值观、声景的生态伦理、以技术为中心的调解哲学、听觉的民族志概念和德勒兹的振动本体论——所有这些都在其基本的怀疑论中结合在一起。以费利克斯·温加特纳指挥的1927年贝多芬第六交响曲的早期电子录音的数字传输为中心,这篇文章试图重新评估倾听过去的政治含义,将其与传统的历史主义项目——恢复我所说的过去的倾听——的淹没关系——重新评估过去的倾听模式,这些模式被认为与特定的空间、历史时刻和处于根本位置的主观主义是不可分割的。
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期刊介绍: An interdisciplinary journal edited by renowned scholars, Representations publishes trend-setting articles and criticism in a wide variety of fields in the humanities. In addition to special topical issues, tributes, and forums, inside you’ll find insightful coverage of: •The Body, Gender, and Sexuality •Culture and Law •Empire, Imperialism, and The New World •History and Memory •Narrative and Poetics •National Identities •Politics and Aesthetics •Philosophy and Religion •Race and Ethnicity •Science Studies •Society, Class, and Power •Visual Culture
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