Digital Angst and the Phenomenology of Discontinuity

Paper given at ISSTC 2015 in Limerick, Ireland.

Many listeners remain fundamentally uneasy with digital audio, considering that it is “cold” and robs music of “life”. This paper examines this angst through Alberti’s perspective theory, Zeno’s paradoxes, Baudrillard’s philosophy of the virtual, and granular synthesis. It proposes a corpuscular phenomenology of sound that reframes discontinuities not as absences, but as generative sites, full of possibility.

Digital Anxiety Dispelled: Granular Synthesis and the Paradox of Discontinuity

This is a chapter in the book Jean Baudrillard: Fest für einen Toten, subsequently revised for presentation in English.

Sounding Cork

I am intrigued by the role that sound plays in our perception of environments, particularly in how we constitute place. This residency at The Guesthouse manifest itself in field recordings, photography, and texts, presented via a process blog and a performance/exhibition.