Memoryscape Blog

It's interesting that now that we've become so adept at taking sound out of context through music, journalism—recorded sound in general, when sound is in context, it is our inclination to not consider it. Butler has compiled and interesting collection of examples of what he acknowledges as—and I think still is—a phenomenon. Putting the context back in sound allows it to become a richer experience because it can be combined with other senses to complete an experience as a whole, as well as offer additional commentary and meaning past experiencing the place itself.