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  1. Feb 2016
    1. My own voice, orotund sweeping and final

      stanza above, the voice is extremely powerful- started universe here voice seems powerless in the city- just one of many citizens

    2. And these tend inward to me, and I tend outward to them,

      this stanza's sounds are all repeatable and orderly- comparing daily sounds to seasons, years, lifetimes, etc.

    3. And am around, tenacious, acquisitive, tireless, and cannot be shaken away

      Interesting how absent sound is in this chunk after the beginning focused almost solely on it.

    4. The feeling of health, the full-noon trill, the song of me rising from bed and meeting the sun.

      This stanza is almost all Whitman incorporating sound into the natural and human world -every aspect of his life (Natural World, human interaction, human environment, body)

  2. Jan 2016
    1. ItwasnotuntiltheRenaissancethatGodbecameportraiture.Previouslyhehadbeenconceivedassoundorvibration.

      This is just really cool- its just accepted in present times that sight is and has always been the dominant form of info gathering- that society evolved away from this due to revoloutions like the printing press is telling that maybe society will evolve again

    2. Whichsoundsdowewanttopreserve,encourage,multiply?

      Kind of the main question- how can we define noise pollution where the definition separates noises we want to hear from the ones we dont want to hear

    1. Tothinksonicallyistothink conjuncturallyaboutsoundandculture:eachofthewriters■!havequotedaboveusedsoundtoaskbigquestionsabouttheirculturalmomentsandthecrisesandproblemsoftheirtime.Soundstudies’challengeistothinkacrosssounds,toconsidersonicphenomenainrelationshiptooneanother—astjpesojsonicphenomenaratherthanasthings-in-themselves

      sound studies is super interdependent with society and culture - society/culture create sound which changes society/culture so they create a new sound