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Posted at May 21/2010 02:24PM:
kholmber: I enjoyed the discussion of how music could create multi-dimensional spaces or ‘soundscapes’ and thought that the sense of wonder and Enlightenment concept of the sublime that imbues our perception of geological phenomena like volcanism was well incorporated. Your use of Kant, who is not easy to read, was also well done. The brief biographical sketches of the composers you chose were helpful and it was wonderful to get a deeper description of the Hekla piece that we all listened to in class. I know that I will plumb the paper in future classes or discussions of volcano-inspired music so thank you for offering the insights from your musical training!
If you were going to expand this paper and take it further, I would encourage you to possibly explore issues you touch on regarding a ‘vital force’ and the historical contextualization of vitalism. I also think you would enjoy playing with ideas of mimesis (see Taussig, Michael. 1993. Mimesis and Alterity. New York: Routledge) and also would get a lot of thoughts from Edward Soja’s work (e.g., Soja, Edward. 1996. Thirdspace: Journeys to Los Angeles and Other Real-and-Imagined Places. Oxford: Blackwell and Soja, Edward. 2000. Postmetropolis: Critical Studies of Cities and Regions. Oxford: Blackwell).
