What Is Existence Without Sound?
What would your world be without sound? Would the absence of all sounds (the incessant bustle of cars - the delicate buzz of flies over a bubbling river) change your emotional state of being? Can we understand our world more completely if we remove sound, all the while noticing the differential in our realities? I propose, for one day, we remove sound from our lives. We will wear earplugs, earbuds, earmuffs, or similitudes to create a vacuum in our perceptions to be analyzed emotionally and intellectually. If this does not work, we will try something else.
Rad. For some serious research and additional evidence I recommend you also get in touch with/provide a platform for people that work a. with the blind & visually impaired, and b. with deaf people. A couple of researchers wrote about these experiences, among them Berendt in “The world is sound”. Please keep us updated.
Silence is an opportunity for awareness, opening, and true presence. It is much more than an absence of sound, but that is a good place to start.
Silence offers the chance to hear differently in the future - to let the sounds merge with us, rather than reaching out, editing and categorizing and ordering what we hear.
Berendt describes that the lack of sight allows us to engage one a deeper level with the environment and other people. Whereas the lack of hearing severs us from other people and isolates us. As a result they become aggressive and neurotic.
So hearing appears to be much more important connection to reality then seeing. We are living in an age that over-emphasises the visual …
I imagine that I would begin to forget how the experience of sounds feels, until I dream at night. The world will be a silent theater, playing colorful before me.