free103point9 Event
MATTHEW OSTROWSKI: A THEORY OF MEANING
Jan. 12, 2007: 2 p.m. – 3 p.m.
Friday afternoon broadcast of a piece made from Matthew Ostrowski's AIRtime residency at free103point9 Wave Farm in Oct., 2006. His description:
A Theory of Meaning
How is it that we see something when we hear something? How does language actually _work_? This is a miracle I can barely understand when an actual person is speaking to me: I hear a series of noises which activate my imagination, see things that aren't there, empathize with people that I can't see (or don't even exist). On the radio it's even more perplexing. There is no visible speaker, utterances emerge from a machine in one's living room, but yet we follow a story, imagine a person who utters these mysterious noises we call language, and understand their ideas. With no human contact, language, a force larger than we are, works.
"A Theory of Meaning" is a radio play for speakers who don't exist.
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- A Theory of Meaning (Radio/Sound Work) Jan. 12, 2007
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- A Theory of Meaning, Jan. 12, 2007. (audio/mpeg)