精讀:聆聽的工具化
Peter Szendy, Listen: A History of Our Ears (2008)
"With what could be called the phonogrammatization of music in general, listening has in effect experienced an unprecedented transformation, which its technical equipment provokes and reveals. [...] it has acquired a certain autonomy—it now has instruments (the disk, the sampler, the digital indexing of sound in general) to act on music."
PSW 譯:「隨著音樂整體所謂的『留聲文字化』(phonogrammatization),聆聽經歷了一場前所未有的轉變,這場轉變是被它的技術裝備所引發、也被它所揭露的。[……]聆聽獲得了某種自主性:它現在擁有了工具(唱片、取樣器,以及聲音整體的數位索引)可以用來作用於音樂本身。」(p.10)
Szendy 寫這段時想的是唱片與取樣器;playlist 與推薦演算法,是同一句話在 2026 年的版本。