1. Reflection on the Listening/Memory Exercise
During this week’s listening and memory exercise, I realized how deeply sound is intertwined with personal memory and material tactile experiences. When listening to specific close-up textures, sound acts almost like a trigger—it doesn’t just present a physical space, but instantly pulls up emotional fragments and bodily memories from the past. This reinforced my interest in micro-material sound textures: sound is never neutral; it carries the weight of memory, intimacy, and personal history.
2. Preparing a “Political Sound” Example for Next Week
For next week’s session on political sounds, I am thinking of bringing the sound of a public protest chant overlapping with the digital shutter sound of surveillance cameras (or state-controlled broadcast noise). This contrasts the collective voice of civil resistance with the acoustic architecture of institutional control, exploring how public spaces and soundscapes are contested territories where politics and power dynamics are constantly negotiated.
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