Voice has often been seen as expression, as the coming into public space of something within. Given its reliance on breath, it was easy to conclude that voice is the expression of the soul.According to Ree (I See A Voice), it was Herder who broke through this illusion bt arguing that voice . . . . Continue Reading »
We don’t hear sounds, Heidegger said. That’s an abstraction. What we hear are things making sounds - “the creaking wagon, or the motor cycle . . . the column on the mark, the north wind, the woodpecker tapping, the fire crackling” (quoted in Jonathan Ree, I See A Voice, . . . . Continue Reading »
Jonathan Ree’s delightful I See A Voiceglances at Enlightenment-era efforts to work out analogies between color and musical harmonies.Newton’s Optics was key. He argued that “just as all different tones can be located on a single scale running from the highest to the lowest . . . . Continue Reading »
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