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URBAN PLANNING AND THE ROLE OF LISTENING MARCEL COBUSSEN (LEIDEN UNIVERSITY, THE NETHERLANDS) SONIC POSTCARDS A SONIC POSTCARD FROM ROTTERDAM-ZUID WHAT AND HOW CAN ARTISTS CONTRIBUTE TO THE WAY WE THINK ABOUT SONIC AMBIANCES? ANSWER:

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URBAN PLANNING AND THE ROLE OF LISTENING

MARCEL COBUSSEN (LEIDEN UNIVERSITY, THE NETHERLANDS)

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SONIC POSTCARDS

A SONIC POSTCARD FROM ROTTERDAM-ZUID
WHAT AND HOW CAN ARTISTS CONTRIBUTE TO THE WAY WE THINK ABOUT SONIC AMBIANCES?
ANSWER: SOUND ARTISTS (MAKE US) LISTEN DIFFERENTLY
EXAMPLE 1: PIERRE SCHAEFFER - ETUDE AUX CHEMINS DE FER (1948)
EXAMPLE 2: HELMUT LACHENMANN – GUERO (1970)
EXAMPLE 3: JOHN CAGE – 4’33” (1951)

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THE ETHICO-AESTHETIC ATTITUDE OF SOUND ARTISTS

AESTHETIC ATTITUDE: IMMANUEL KANT’S “PURPOSIVENESS WITHOUT A PURPOSE”
ETHICAL ATTITUDE: ELAINE SCARRY’S “STANDARD OF PERPETUAL CARE”

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CODA

JEAN-LUC NANCY: “WHAT SECRET IS AT STAKE WHEN ONE TRULY LISTENS, THAT IS, WHEN ONE

TRIES TO CAPTURE THE SONORITY RATHER THAN THE MESSAGE? WHAT SECRET IS YIELDED WHEN WE LISTEN TO A VOICE, AN INSTRUMENT, OR A SOUND JUST FOR ITSELF?”

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THANK YOU!

MARCEL COBUSSEN (LEIDEN UNIVERSITY, THE NETHERLANDS) “URBAN PLANNING AND THE ROLE OF LISTENING”