Komponować świat, słuchając – dźwięk jako komunikacja

Composing the World while Listening – Sound as CommunicationIn this article, the notion of acoustic communication is being examined. The author propose the thesis that shift toward meditational qualities of sound environments as well as the main strategies of minimalist aesthetics (with the example of John Cage being the most exemplary) can be seen as the radical reconfiguration of traditional communication theory paradigm, as embodied in the Shannon-Weaver’s model. The mutual links are established between theory of acoustic ecology proposed by R. Murray Schafer, the model of acoustic communication authored by Barry Truax, Hildegard Westerkamp’s practice of soundwalking and the major currents in contemporary philosophy of sound that influenced electroacoustic music in the XX century.