Distance No Object » geography http://edc13.education.ed.ac.uk/ginar Gina's E-learning and Digital Cultures site - part of the MSc in E-learning at the University of Edinburgh Sun, 07 Apr 2013 21:58:15 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 sound geography http://edc13.education.ed.ac.uk/ginar/2013/01/23/sound-geography/ http://edc13.education.ed.ac.uk/ginar/2013/01/23/sound-geography/#comments Wed, 23 Jan 2013 23:17:31 +0000 Giraf87 http://edc13.education.ed.ac.uk/ginar/?p=498 I was thinking a little bit more in the context of Sterne’s article and how he laments how little ‘sound’ has been considered as a topic of research in the context of digital cultures.

The manipulation of sound, sound sampling for instance, is turning sound into a physical or ‘measured’ object therefore giving it a spacial representation, similar to architecture.In that sense, sounds extends digital geographies.

I would like to use this clip I found on You Tube as an example

Click here to view the embedded video.

 

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