We are living in an era in which the incredible dominance of the visual modality in society _“eye culture” is deteriorating our ability to listen attentively to our environment, the ability that once was not to say dominant but maybe equally important as our visual sensory. In his remarkable book ” The Tuning of the World “ R Murry Schaefer a Canadian composer, writer, music educator and environmentalist mentioned this important cultural shift in western societies:

In the West the ear gave way to the eye as the most important gatherer of information about the time of the Renaissance, with the development of the printing press and perspective painting. One of the most evident testaments of this change is the way in which we have come to imagine God. It was not until the Renaissance that God became portraiture. Previously he had been conceived as sound or vibration. Before the days of writing, in the days of prophets and epics, the sense of hearing was more vital than the sense of sight. The word of God, the history of the tribe and all other important information was heard, not seen…

Today the normal practice of life experience documentation is by presenting numerous visual contents through the saturated space of social media, with less attention to the delicate details that our other senses can produce. My hope is to create a space in which to engage you with a subject by reading and listening rather than watching and hearing!

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