We’ve forgotten how to use our ears – we’ve forgotten how to listen
The dominance of the visual over the aural has increased slowly over the past few thousand years. There was a time when, in order to locate the current position of our next meal, we would listen intently to the sounds it made and only then, using our eyes, would seek out the animal in order to kill it. Now, many of us seem to just wander around supermarkets looking for an attractively packaged meal, iPods in, but not really listening.
Pete Stollery will present some of his work which tries to address this shift away from focussed listening towards a kind of passive hearing.
