I don't think that noise exists by itself, it's not like sound. Noise needs humans, perception, subjects and their subjectivity. Noise is a product. Sound exists without us, without a listener. Sound does not need us. Noise does. So, noise is abstract and we can use it as it is, as an abstraction, but it's not real. Reality has nothing to do with perception, but perception has everything to do with reality. Danger comes when we start thinking that noise exists without perception. (..) We are the noise already, we create it. And there is no such thing as noise. (...) It's the sound and its ephemerality which make us feel vulnerable because our way of thinking is structured and solid. We think about reality through concepts which seem to be white rooms, isolated and clear, but the truth is reality does not work in that way. Limits are diffuse and not clear. Everything is connected and related to each other. Our western way of thinking (dual-perception-of-reality) and also our ego (Anthropocentrism) get into conflicts when we think that ourselves, myself, is not only me, but also full of others, such as bacterias and through sound and thanks to the act of listening we can discover it more clearly.
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Mikel R. Nieto, letter correspondance, 2019-2020.
presented at klimaatfestival, antwerpen, 2022
Thank you Mikel R Nieto (ES), Lasse-Marc Riek (DE), Minori Sanchiz-Fung (VE/US), PRAKSIS & Climata