AMBIENT:FROM IMMERSION TO IMMANENCE

Marcus Maeder, ZHdK/ETHZ The tuning of the world: From the landscape to the soundscape. The tuning of the world Investigation and interpretation of environmental

Geophonies – Biophonies – Anthropophonies Investigation and interpretation of environmental sound The concept of the Soundscape Classificatory structure of a soundscape

Farina, 2013. Scales: Landscapes – habitats – communities - individuals The ecological information in sound

Towsey, 2018 “Umwelt” Jakob von Uexküll’s Umwelt model: functional circle of percpetion and action

McKenna et al., 2013 The scientific view – but how do people perceive a soundscape? Environment and meaning: Soundwalks, a basic strategy in Acoustic

Soundwalk protocol, Aletta et al., 2015 Soundwalk, Pfynwald, 2018 Urban environments Ambient culture Mimetic ceremonies in indigenous societies: Appropriation and comprehension of the environment

Mimetic ceremonies in indigenous societies: Appropriation and comprehension of the environment Mimetic ceremony: Embodiyng knowledge about the world Neo-shamanism in ambient culture Immersive spaces Immersive spaces ImmersiveMimetic ceremoniesspaces in early human history: immersive settings Pop-cultural roots of ambient music: Berlin School/ of the 1970ies Synthesizers: Mimetic machines Birthplaces and pioneers of ambient culture: Zodiac Free Arts Lab Berlin, Cluster Revival of ambient music in the 1990ies club culture Revival of ambient music in the 1990ies club culture MimesisMimesis of of the the technical technical environment: environment: Origins Origins Aesthetics of ambient music: 1. Drones Aesthetics of ambient music: Drones Aesthetics of ambient music: Aesthetics of ambient music: Clicks & Cuts AestheticsAesthetics of of ambientambient music: music: Patterns, 4. Patterns, Loops Loops Aesthetics of ambient music: The sound of media Aesthetics of ambient music: Field Recordings Music and science: The artwork as an epistemological metaphor Aesthetics of ambient music: Music and science – The artwork as epistemological metaphor Ambient spaces: From immersion to immanence Immanence Immanence Immanence Immanence: Being (radically) in the world

„It engulfs sages and gods. Immanence is only immanent to itself and consquently captures everything, absorbs All-One, and leaves nothing remaining to which it could be immanent.“

(G. Deleuze/F. Guattari: What is philosophy?) Thank you!