Marco Fusinato - Extended Breakdown in ’E’ (Autotune Everything, Liquid Architecture)

In determining what is signal and what is noise, listening is political - all listening, all the time. Autotune Everything 18 - 20 Aug 2016 The Greek Centre for Contemporary Culture, Melbourne By necessity, we tune in to some signals, and filter others out. In determining what is signal and what is noise, listening is political – all listening, all the time. As is looking: when we focus, we sharpen the subject, and exclude the rest. Consigned to the back, signals nonetheless continue to vibrate, permeating through the social and the architectural, into the atmospheric. We want to stage a conversation about sound, art and public space. What if our own practices echo those of the larger forces that filter, groom and autotune political and aesthetic consensus? What do we hear when our listening is less selective? What processes transmit, in the background, and what alternative tuning would receive them? How might