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Sight and hearing are arguably the two most powerful human senses with which we understand and navigate through our world – whether it is the simple relationship between a green flashing man, and an audio beeping at a pedestrian crossing or the more complex emotions we might feel when watching a movie – where the ‘tragic’ break-up is accompanied by a symphonic cascade of violin strings. Sound and image when harnessed by design becomes a powerful partnership which, either can impart life saving information, manipulate emotions or be empathetic to any given experience – concert lighting, movie soundtracks, audio navigation systems all draw upon long held traditions or relationships to how we see and how we hear.
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Potentially, ours is “…a world of no-boundaries in which information emerges not from fixed positions but anywhere and everywhere. It is the world of music, myth, total immersion.” For media theorist, Marshall McLuhan, this is what he calls ‘acoustic space’ – a term he uses to talk about the world before the printed word. The era of print, he argues, has been dominated by the visual - an eye-culture - but the electronic and then digital world that has superseded print can, once again, be a culture of the ear.
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The photograph, the journey and the travelogue, the traditional triumvirate of the holiday experience… With so many of us returning from vacation it is worth re-evaluating the memory and how we capture it.
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