READING RESPONSE

Upon reading Nature, Sound Art and the Sacred, by David Dunn, a few things came to mind.

"Our ears are better at discriminating certain kinds of complex phenomena and we can often hear relationships between things that our eyes require external instrumentation to accomplish."

This quote reminded me of a Rejjie Snow cover art:

I have always loved this cover art because it puts almost labels as sight as unimportant, and emphasized the importance on what is heard. Although this album cover has nothing to do with the reading, I thought it was interesting that I related what was in the reading to something that I have kept in mind for years.

I also agreed with a part Dunn included:

“I think music may be a conservation strategy for keeping something alive that we may now need to make more conscious, a way of making sense of the world from which we might refashion our relationship to nonhuman living systems.”

Think about musicians that have died, but people are still conserving their legacy through their music; whether it be pure appreciation, song samples, or inspiration… people remember people and events from past music.

In the reading, Dunn also says,

"These sounds are the evidence of sentient beings and complex-minded systems."

I like the idea of this because it emphasizes the ideal of everyone coexisting together. Our environment is composed to togetherness. Think, if there were no other people or things on earth, just one single item or being, there would be almost pure silence.

I am not sure if the things that came to mind for me are not what the author was trying to communicate; however, I believe the reading is meant to be interpreted differently by the readers.