The ear favours no particular point of view.We are enveloped by sound.It forms a seamless web around us.We say, Music shall fill the air. We never say, Music shall fill a particular segment of the air.We hear sounds from everywhere, without ever having to focus. Sounds come from above, from below, from in front of us, from behind us, from our right, from our left.We cant shut out sound automatically. We simply are not equipped with earlids.Where a visual space is an organised continuum of a uniformed connected kind, the ear world is a world of simultaneous relationships.
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About Marshall McLuhan
Marshall McLuhan was a 20th-century Canadian philosopher and communications scholar. Herbert Marshall McLuhan was a Canadian philosopher whose work is among the cornerstones of the study of media theory. Raised in Winnipeg, McLuhan studied at the University of Manitoba and the University of Cambridge. Read more on Wikipedia →
Themes
- Music — The universal language of melody, rhythm, and harmony