精讀①:可聞化運動
Jonathan Sterne, The Audible Past: Cultural Origins of Sound Reproduction(Duke University Press, 2003)
"As there was an Enlightenment, so too was there an "Ensoniment." A series of conjunctures among ideas, institutions, and practices rendered the world audible in new ways and valorized new constructs of hearing and listening. Between about 1750 and 1925, sound itself became an object and a domain of thought and practice, where it had previously been conceptualized in terms of particular idealized instances like voice or music."
PSW 譯:「正如曾有一場啟蒙運動(Enlightenment),也曾有一場『可聞化運動』(Ensoniment)。一系列理念、制度與實踐的交會,讓世界以嶄新的方式變得可聞,並賦予聽覺與聆聽新的建構價值。大約在1750年到1925年間,聲音本身成為思想與實踐的一個對象、一個領域,而在此之前,它只被概念化為人聲或音樂這類特定的理想化實例。」(p.2)
Edison 1877 年的錫箔留聲機,不是「可聞化運動」的起點,是它一百多年鋪墊之後,第一個可以被物質儲存的成果。