{"id":5409,"date":"2018-04-13T13:51:25","date_gmt":"2018-04-13T11:51:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tunedcity.net\/?page_id=5409"},"modified":"2018-05-10T18:50:40","modified_gmt":"2018-05-10T16:50:40","slug":"the-tone-of-prime-unity","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.tunedcity.net\/?page_id=5409","title":{"rendered":"The Tone of Prime Unity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tunedcity.net\/?page_id=287\">Will Schrimshaw<\/a> (UK) \u2013 Artist and Researcher (Edge Hill University, Lancashire)<br \/>\nlocation: Ekklesiasterion <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/d\/u\/0\/viewer?mid=1LAF9ur4veHi3hF0L_66sPiB7bNFhrTvK&#038;ll=37.17564569999997%2C21.92110690000004&#038;z=19\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">map >>><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tunedcity.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/tunedcity_struktur_14_blau.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5565\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tunedcity.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/tunedcity_struktur_14_blau.png 800w, https:\/\/www.tunedcity.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/tunedcity_struktur_14_blau-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/www.tunedcity.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/tunedcity_struktur_14_blau-768x576.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In The Soundscape R. Murray Schafer describes a tone of \u2018prime unity,\u2019 a tonal centre conditioning an international sonic unconscious. Diverging from the bucolic image of nature readily associated with Schafer\u2019s ethics and aesthetics this tone is found in the ubiquitous hum of electrical infrastructure and appliances. A utopian potential is ascribed to this tone in Schafer\u2019s writing whereby it constitutes the conditions for a unified international acoustic community of listening subjects.<br \/>\nIn this lecture we will explore Schafer\u2019s anomalous concept of the tone of prime unity and the contradictions it introduces into Schafer\u2019s project of utopian soundscape design. Discussion of the correspondence between Schafer and Marshall McLuhan contextualises and identifies the source of Schafer\u2019s concept of the tone of prime unity. Of particular interest is the processes of unconscious auditory influence this concept entails and its problematic relation to the politics of sonic warfare. Through discussion of contemporary artistic practices that engage with these problems, it is argued that the tone of prime unity nonetheless presents an opportunity to shift the focus of Schafer\u2019s project from a telos of divine harmony towards collective self-determination through participatory intervention in the world around us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Will Schrimshaw (UK) \u2013 Artist and Researcher (Edge Hill University, Lancashire) location: Ekklesiasterion map >>> In The Soundscape R. Murray Schafer describes a tone of \u2018prime unity,\u2019 a tonal centre conditioning an international sonic unconscious. Diverging from the bucolic image of nature readily associated with Schafer\u2019s ethics and aesthetics this tone is found in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":5376,"menu_order":50,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[17],"class_list":["post-5409","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","category-messene_talk","tag-p03m"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tunedcity.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tunedcity.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tunedcity.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tunedcity.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tunedcity.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5409"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.tunedcity.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5761,"href":"https:\/\/www.tunedcity.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5409\/revisions\/5761"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tunedcity.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tunedcity.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tunedcity.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tunedcity.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}