My last week in sound
Jun 02, 2008 in Miscellaneous, Sound Studies
Monday:
In the evening I was talking with Augsburg-based sociologist Stefan Böschen about the cultural production of ignorance and non-knowledge. An issue which is of special interest for the history of speaking about sound: Who is allowed to speak about sound? Who is named as an expert? And who is named as a non-expert? Which ways of expressing, worldmaking and knowledge are prohibited by this (often elitist) discrimination?
Tuesday:
As I was having lunch a pair of sparrows began squeaking and screaming, sandbathing two steps away from me in a hollow where cobblestones were torn apart.
Wednesday:
Singing along to the new Weezer-video with loads of web memes and celebs:
Dancing tango in the evening and loving the ochos of my wife…
Thursday:
Walking home after a late-afternoon meeting with ice-cream, out in the warm early summer breeze. On famous Oberbaumbrücke between Kreuzberg and Friedrichshain I encountered an activist spree on bikes from the Mediaspree versenken!-action against urban planning and city marketing by investors on the east-harbour of the river Spree here in Berlin. The micro-soundsystem on the back of the bikes made hell of a noise in the red hot sunset.
Friday:
Delighted about the pre-release of Erdbeerfeld-Magazin: #1 Sprache: been virtual interviewed together with two artists I highly appreciate:AGF and Susanne Feld from Erdbeerfeld.
In the evening at a meeting of the Interdisciplinary Center for Historical Anthropology in Berlin we discussed the concept of a sensus communis after Immanuel Kant: What is the fundament of our aesthetic judgments?
How can we combine historical and particular views with the strife for the general and fundamental? What is it that creates a community? How can we understand our sense for collective interaction?
To read: William H. McNeill, Keeping Together in Time: Dance and Drill in Human History (1995) and Ulrich Pothast, Philosophisches Buch: Schrift unter der aus der Entfernung leitenden Frage, was es heisst, auf menschliche Weise lebendig zu sein (1988)
Saturday:
On the morning, we had breakfast on the beach of Müggelsee, outside of Berlin; and in the evening we were visiting the so-called art-invasion in the former flower market in Kreuzberg in the night.
Sunday:
Love the current work of artist Brad Downey on the shopping windows of the big west-berlin department store KaDeWe for Lacoste.