Fri, 09 Jul 2010 16:46

We at The Smalls wonder how people are listening to the Sound Map now that a few months have gone by. Do you pick clips purely to listen and try to distinguish every little element within them?  Do you see colors when you close your eyes? Or perhaps you visualize the ideal version of whatever would accompany the distinct and unique sounds? However you react, what is great is that you are using your imagination again.

By again, we just mean that our culture has become so visual that it is possible that our minds have become overloaded with information – making it nearly impossible to take a time out and think for ourselves. Listening to disembodied sounds is unique, as it triggers that part of our mind that can help fill in the blanks, creating a visual world of our own. You are not told what to see, but given a platform to see it for yourself.

Like the old times, when families gathered around a single speaker radio to listen to their favorite show, there was a time when all those people in that room would see the show in their mind’s eye differently.  So when you’re thinking about all of the people around the world who are listening to Street Sounds, take a moment to know that you are not only sharing a collective experience, but there are thousands of minds going in an infinite number of directions.

Where have you gone in your imagination?  www.thesmalls.com/streetsounds