I found Joseph Kamari’s work profoundly moving as he talked about his awareness of the world around him. His work focussed so deeply on the everyday noises but simultaneously felt like something new and fresh. After watching his new live stream at HÖR Berlin if felt highly inspired by his sonic positioning and art.
Kamaru works with familiar noises in our society and applies different synths and drones which almost mask what are hearing. These sonic effects make his sonic sound inaudible to fully understand; I find such beauty in this. Blurring the boundaries between understanding and unfamiliar can almost place a mediative effect on the listener. Complications and chaos of civilisation can tarnish how we hear sounds. Our ethnographies build up a list of connotations linked to sounds we hear and can almost create a negative and presumptuous mindset. How his work blurs these certainties within this live stream leaves thinking space for the viewer to create new preconceptions around the sound.
As humans, we are so driven physiologically to the source of sound and how it looks. However, Kmaru’s work has inspired me to listen deeper beyond the context and around the sonic itself. Humans think about the source of sound when listening due to a combination of innate cognitive processes and learned experiences. I researched into this, finding that the main reasons stem from us having, survival instinct, spacial awareness, social interaction and being environmentally aware.
I will talk about the idea of this deeper listening within my essay and express the vitality of how we chose to hear and see rather this listen beyond the what who and where.