“Socrates: Maybe McLuhan was right about artists being the only ones who really see the importance of context in communication. I came across a website about a Japanese laptop artist called Oblaat, a New York-based sound curator called Keiko Uenishi. Even the name Oblaat contains a reference to McLuhan’s insight: in Japanese ‘oblaat’ means the colourless, tasteless, self-dissolving gel which surrounds pill capsules. You can’t taste it, but it gives definition to the shape of the pill, helps you swallow it. It’s a perfect symbol of making defining, invisible contexts visible.”

and…

“This, then, was the sound of humanism. It shone like an exit sign in the palace of mirrors.”

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The Electroacoustics of Humanism