테크놀로지와 청취의 테크닉: 워크맨에서 오르페우스 장치까지

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This paper explores how mobile recording and playback technologies have transformed techniques of listening. From the Walkman to wireless earphones, such devices have individualized and embodied listening, turning sound into the affect, the bodily experience. Phenomena like the “killer tone” and ASMR testify to significant shifts in techniques of listening. The Orphic devices—including noise canceling systems, white noise generators, and sound mac hines— enable listeners to be a host of the sound and to have a freedom to manipulate the sound. The technology, however, creates not only the differences between the social strata, but also the risk of embodying the latent desires of the new liberal ideology. Ultimately, the paper argues that these conditions invite artistic inquiry, where new techniques of listening reshape the relations between sensation, affect, and the world through the new mode of embodied sensation.

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