The Shape of Sound - Video Essay

What is the shape of sound? And what do shapes mean to us?
Bibliography:
Readings:
• Al-Ghazali. The Niche of Lights. Translated by David Buchman, Brigham Young University Press, 1998.
• Dee, Payton. Searching for Social Properties, 2023
• Jebara, Mohamad. The Life of the Quran: From Eternal Roots to Enduring Legacy. St. Martin’s Essentials, 2022
• Millikan, Ruth Garrett. Language: A Biological Model. Clarendon Press, 2005.
• The Mystical Poems of Rumi. Translated by A. J. Arberry, University of Chicago Press, 1991.
• Stebbing, L. Susan. “Language and Misleading Questions.” Mind, vol. 48, no. 192, 1939, pp. 433-453.
• Tomasello, Michael. Origins of Human Communication. MIT Press, 2008.
• The Quran. Translated by M. A. S. Abdel Haleem, Oxford University Press, 2004.
Viewings :
• Cymatics - Dr. Hans Jenny, Introduction by Peter Guy Manners, M.D
• Cymatics full document...
• Iannis Xenakis’ graphic notation piece “Mycenae Alpha” (1978). The work was created with the UPIC system (Unité Polyagogique Informatique de CEMAMu), a tool Xenakis designed to turn drawings into sound.
• Rainer Wehinger’s visual listening score of György Ligeti’s “Artikulation” (1970)
• Lissajous curves - Reuben Levine www.instagram....
• Two-Hand Band - Zonk Music (Audio and visuals are completely controlled live using different hand gestures. Touchdesigner and Ableton.)
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• Animal communication - Rowan Cheung
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• The Code of Sound - Sean Clayton
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• Visual Vernacular Poem: Hawk American Sign Language Literature, ASL 314 Dr. Benjamin Bahan (who I also got to meet) Gallaudet University
• Visual Vernacular Poem...
• Dr. Masaru Emoto - Experiment on Water
• Dr. Emoto's Water Expe...
• Susan Philipsz - Sound in Space
• Susan Philipsz | Sound...

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"The beginning of our love for Him is through listening, not vision, which is His Utterance to us in our non-existence: 'Be!' This is why we move in ecstasy when hearing melodies, due to Kun that ushers from Divine Names ... Divine Realities that usher from melodies are stronger than those from speech ... Melodies and notes first appeared in the Divine Throne then descended to our world." Ibn al-Arabi