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June 20, 2005
I was walking around The Rocks area in inner Sydney yesterday and I heard the noise from this:
The noise was from 600 truckies in a go-slow to protest against the Government's planned industrial relations reforms. The truck drivers crept across the Sydney Harbour bridges blocking traffic for more than an hour in a show of civil disobedience with their hand on the horn.
Urban noise. I fled from the urban noise that assaulted the silence.
Then I started thinking about the new audio culture that represents the auditory turn in contemporary culture. This is based on opening music to the background noise of the industrial city as raw material for the cut and splice development of the new music.
I'm not sure how to chart this new sonic landscape in which there is an incursion of music into everyday life and into the spaces of everyday living.
Does this sound construct us as human subjects and locate us in particular social and cultural contexts?
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