Hi Roger, Thanks for your mention of the Art of the Networked Practice symposium. The irony is that I am trained as a composer and have done considerable work and writing over the years regarding networked sound practices. However, there was so much to cover in the symposium and I wanted to keep the focus on research, teaching, and collaboration, but in fact I am quite interested in this subject and hopefully next time!
That said, I just wanted to mention that Helen Varley Jamieson is developing a live performance, which will be performed live via Adobe Connect as part of the symposium¹s opening. The work is entitled "we r now[here]," a cyberformance about "nowhere and somewhere," which I believe will address many relevant ideas concerning dislocation, disembodiment, and other aspects of virtuality in live networked space (or as I call it, the third space). Best, Randall Art of the Networked Practice | Online Symposium March 31 - April 2, 2015 http://oss.adm.ntu.edu.sg/symposium2015/ On 2/24/15, 9:17 PM, "Alan Sondheim" <[email protected]> wrote: > >Check out Auditory Neuroscience, Making Sense of Sound, Schnupp, Nelken, >and King, and Sonic Warfare, Sound, Affect, and The Ecology of Fear, both >MIT, if you haven't already - > >On Wed, 25 Feb 2015, Roger Mills wrote: > >> Hi Patrick, thanks for sharing your ISEA paper and revisiting this >>topic of >> embodiment in virtual performance. I remember reading it at the time in >> 2011, and had hoped I might bump into you there to discuss but we never >> crossed paths. >> >> I completely concur with your synthesis of neurological research into an >> understanding of virtual perception / cognition, particularly >>Ramachandran?s >> proposition that ?neurons fire in sympathy with the observation of >>another >> person?s action.? >> >> I would argue that this also extends to sound, which is an integral, if >>not >> greater part of that same mirror through which we perceive and interpret >> meaning. On this view, sonic characteristics such as timbre, rhythm, >>melody, >> articulation in speech, music and other sound metaphorically enable the >> meaning making process because we know what it is to make those sounds >>with >> our voice or bodies. It is this idea of experiential metaphor that is >>also >> elaborated in the work by Mark Johnson and George Lakoff on image >>schematic >> experience, which I have previously proposed is useful to understanding >> perception in networked or virtual environments. It is interesting to >>note >> that Jonson and Lakoff also reference motor / mirror neuron research to >> elaborate their embodied cognition thesis. >> >> With this in mind, I have often wondered why sound seems to play such a >> minor role in these deliberations, particularly in staple literature >>such as >> Massumi, Ascott et al (please point out if you or anyone feels i have >>missed >> something here). This follows what I also find to be a somewhat >> anachronistic, yet still pervasive notion of virtual space being >>perceived >> objectively as a separate, somehow fluffy academic cosy space >>(cyberspace) >> between dislocated bodies. >> >> In my mind cyberspace, or networked space as I prefer to think of it, >>is an >> extension of physical spaces and the embodiment of those spaces by the >> social actions that occur in them. This emerged quite strongly in my >>own >> case study research of networked music performance (NMP), but perhaps it >> also has something to do with a music or sound focussed medium as >>opposed to >> the predominantly visual medium of virtual environments such as SL. >> >> Some of these questions might be discussed in the upcoming Art of >>Networked >> Practice symposium, although I was hoping, (Randall aside) that there >>might >> have been a panelist who could speak from a specific NMP practice and >> research perspective. There are many such as Pauline Oliveros, Mara >>Helmuth, >> Ken Fields for example that I think could contribute poignant ideas that >> relate to many of these issues but IMHO are often overlooked by >>audiovisual >> focussed telematics perspectives. >> >> In any event I enjoyed revisiting your paper and its contribution >>toward the >> much needed 'epistemic arc' as you describe it ! >> >> Best wishes >> Roger >> >> >> ? >> Roger Mills >> >> http://www.eartrumpet.org >> http://roger.netpraxis.net >> http://telesound.net >> >> "Knowledge is only rumour until it is in the muscle" - Asaro Mudmen, >> Papua New Guinea. >> >> >> >> > >== >email archive http://sondheim.rupamsunyata.org/ >web http://www.alansondheim.org / cell 718-813-3285 >music: http://www.espdisk.com/alansondheim/ >current text http://www.alansondheim.org/tb.txt >==_______________________________________________ >NetBehaviour mailing list >[email protected] >http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
