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Some Excursions into Sonic Fiction - Mediamatic
"Some Excursions into Sonic Fiction - Mediamatic" treats sound as force, showing how vibration, sonic fiction, or acoustic design reorganize affective and political space.
Archive condition
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Core idea
These texts argue that sound is not mere accompaniment to culture. Vibration, bass, and auditory design act directly on bodies, spaces, and publics, making sonic theory a theory of force.
They work by turning acoustics into logistics, atmosphere into pressure, and listening into environmental relation. Sonic fiction and sonic warfare describe how sound reorganizes situations before it is interpreted.
That matters because the section is trying to surface the archive's strongest account of affective mediation. Audio culture becomes a way of thinking force, mood, and coordination together.
How to read this text
Read for how the page moves from music or noise toward vibration, pressure, or environmental effect.
Keep an eye on where listening becomes spatial or political. Those moments usually carry the page's strongest claims.
Representative extracts
Definition · paragraph 2
His music essay is freely transmedial. In his writing he wants to be a part of the world where the sonic fictions come into being, and in his book he attempts to handle text the way musicians do sound.
Definition · paragraph 2
In his writing he wants to be a part of the world where the sonic fictions come into being, and in his book he attempts to handle text the way musicians do sound. The book is a mix; constructed from short vignettes, varying from associative impressions to definitory exercises, from historic asides to compact sketches of cross- connections.
Definition · paragraph 2
5/11/23, 3:05 PM Some Excursions into Sonic Fiction - Mediamatic https://www.mediamatic.net/en/page/8733/some-excursions-into-sonic-fiction 2/10 computers and synthesisers). His approach is militantly post-human: according to him, this music comes about through surrender to the specific dynamics of that technology.
Definition · paragraph 2
5/11/23, 3:05 PM Some Excursions into Sonic Fiction - Mediamatic https://www.mediamatic.net/en/page/8733/some-excursions-into-sonic-fiction 2/10 computers and synthesisers). His approach is militantly post-human: according to him, this music comes about through surrender to the specific dynamics of that technology. In his depiction of contemporary Futurythmachines, Varèse, Xenakis and Stockhausen are of as great a historic value as jazz innovators like Sun Ra and Coltrane.
Afterlife · paragraph 9
5/11/23, 3:05 PM Some Excursions into Sonic Fiction - Mediamatic https://www.mediamatic.net/en/page/8733/some-excursions-into-sonic-fiction 9/10 Beastie Boys just did hip-hop all over again with the punk negation. That's what the public didn't like; it's too complicated.
Appears in sections
Sonic Futures and Audio Theory Primary section
Jungle, Hyperdub, sonic warfare, and the sound-centered pathways into the archive's theory culture.