“Developments in technology, including those in the field of the digital image and sound, are contained within the framework of perspective, which means within the framework of a narrative that has at its heart one purpose: control, control of space, of the mind of the viewer, reader or listener. All the unsolved mysteries (such as audience response) are being critically solved when in reality the audience has turned its back on art. Between the producers and the ‘consumers’ no development is possible now because the narrative itself never sees the light of the day unless it achieves the status of a premeditated object of consumption. It never forms that active subjective relationship where space will be left free to become what it will.”
—Kaul, Mani. “The Rambling Figure.” Soundscape. The School of Sound Lectures 1998-2001. Eds. Sider, Larry, Diane Freeman and Jerry Sider. London: Wallflower Press, 2003. 209-20. (via carvalhais)
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