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Beteiligte: Ernst, Wolfgang
In: Journal of Visual Culture, 14, 2015, 1, S. 99-110
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SAGE Publications
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Umfang: 99-110
ISSN: 1470-4129
1741-2994
DOI: 10.1177/1470412915574249
veröffentlicht in: Journal of Visual Culture
Sprache: Englisch
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Kollektion: SAGE Publications (CrossRef)
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<jats:p> Is there a ‘sound of the archive’? Sonic memory operates on a different time base from the historical archive with its text-based alphabetic and visual records. Listening to disembodied voices allows for a specific kind of ‘re-presencing’ the past (Sobchak, in Media Archaeology: Approaches, Applications and Implications, 2011). Remembering past sonospheres by technical media induces short-cuts of the historical distance itself, whereas audio-recordings ask for a media-archaeological understanding in its most literal sense: listening to the articulation of the medium itself. The ahistoric resonances of sonic articulation and listening are counter-balanced by the radical historicity of its material embodiment. In order to exercise a different language to express such media-induced tempor(e)alities, McLuhan’s concept of ‘acoustic space’ (as alternative to the dominance of the eye in the typographic era) is further developed into the notion of ‘sonicity’ to describe media-epistemological constellations where time and technology meet. </jats:p>