Sound Actions

(the compliment of Listening Filters)

I try and think like a sound,
but I am a soundmaking entity.
I can only think as an instigator,
organiser, collator of sounds. 

Voegelin says sound is
the Thing doing,
with the doing inseparable
from the Thing. (1) "I take Heidegger’s focus on the elemental notion of the Thing in Dingheit. . .The Thing as sound is a verb, the thing is what ‘things’ in its contingent production. To thing, it is to do a thing rather than be a Thing. In fact any notion of being as a positive or transcendental existence, in and of itself, is negated in sonic-thingness” (Voegelin, 2010, p. 19).

Sound humming
Sound singing
Sound vibrating
Sound resonating
Sound slapping
Sound separating
Sound pinging
Sound palpating
Sound pressing
Sound pushing
Sound powering
Sound shivering
Sound shimmering
Sound stuttering
Sound confusing
Sound deluding
Sound denuding
Sound distancing
Sound spacing
Sound measuring
Sound combining
Sound entwining
Sound insinuating
Sound implying
Sound denying
Sound covering
Sound clouding
Sound gathering
Sound increasing
Sound persisting
Sound decaying
Sound delaying
Sound defying
Sound settling
Sound stroking
Sound starting
Sound stopping
Sound silencing.  

Notes

(1) "I take Heidegger’s focus on the elemental notion of the Thing in DingheitThe Thing as sound is a verb, the thing is what ‘things’ in its contingent production. To thing, it is to do a thing rather than be a Thing. In fact any notion of being as a positive or transcendental existence, in and of itself, is negated in sonic-thingness” (Voegelin, 2010, p. 19). (i) Voegelin, S. (2010). Listening to noise and silence: Towards a philosophy of sound art. Continuum

Notes in Notes

(i) Voegelin, S. (2010). Listening to noise and silence: Towards a philosophy of sound art. Continuum.