suoni immaginari by WERGK

Are imaginary sounds conceivable? There is redundancy in the question, because conceiving something also means imagining it. The term imagination leads back to inner images that we create of something before our inner eye. Do we have something like an inner ear? Since Plato, the sense of sight has always been regarded as the highest, which is closely connected with the power of mind. All other human senses are graded below according to the degree of their emotionality. The sense of hearing follows the sense of sight next. Nevertheless, it is also assigned a subordinate role in orientation. It is the sense with which we find our way in the environment as opposed to seeing without focussing. In addition to the secondary linguistic-textual information, it also includes those that warn us or that take place outside the field of vision. This means that hearing must always be more concrete than seeing. And so we react directly to sounds. They can be scary, but they also give us well-being, because we compare and classify them with experiences at the moment of listening. In the inner comparison lies the level of the “imagination”, our inner auditory world, which is always our own, which we only have in part with our fellow human beings in common. It's the same with music. Everyone has their own soundtrack present and each new piece of music expands our inner listening world, if it does not redundantly reproduce only the "hearing bubble", into which we like to retreat comfortably. Imaginary sounds are always concrete, even if they are not concretely generated, i.e. analogue. Just like these 20 tracks, which were created digitally, but all recorded live and without dubbing. But they only become really concrete in the ear of a listener.

WERGK is the working title for my excursions into neoclassic, nujazz, musique pataphysique, minimal, and ambient in parallel to my main account lomov.bandcamp.com