Today , we talked about a concept known as "Sound Ecology" and I thought it was the coolest thing ever.
Its basically the idea that new technology eventually blurs our concepts of history, culture, and ancient traditions. For example, we may have some sort of idea of what a village from the middle ages sounded like.... but we have no concrete evidence (such as a recording, for instance).
I have always wondered and imagined what life would be like if I lived in one of the ancient Mesopotamian city states, or how it would compare if I lived in New York in the 1700's. This has always been speculated upon, and many movies and television shows have delved deeper into this subject of course, but it definitely sparked a cord of adventure in me; I am now really bugged by the fact that I won't know what the daily life of Ancient Rome sounded like, or what living in Feudal Japan REALLY was like.
I'm not even a history major and I think this is the coolest stuff ever.
Technology allows us to have some sort of idea what this was like, but we will never TRULY understand what daily life sounded, felt like, and seemed like back then... and with the loss of focal things from daily life nowadays, future generations might lose an idea of what it was like to live WITH focal things and practices... and that in itself is a very scary thought.
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