“an ancient tradition which [...

] gives back to the ear alone the entire responsibility of a

perception that ordinarily rests on other sensible witnesses.” (p. 77)
“In ancient times, the apparatus was a curtain; today, it is the radio and the methods of
reproduction, along eith the whole set of electro-acoustic transformations, that place us,
modern listeners to na invisible voice, under similar conditions”
[as condições são radicalmente assimilares. As mídias, hoje, com a generalizada
conversão de todos os fluxos de informação para o digital (Kittler), raramente ‘poupam’
a música de uma escuta proprioceptiva, intersemiótica. A forma da escuta absoluta,
centrada, que reproduz, com o aparelho de alta-fidelidade, as regulações do próprio
concerto, torna-se um fenômeno de segunda ordem.
“it is no longer a question of knowing how a subjective listening interprets or deforms
‘reality’, of studying reactions to stimuli. It is the listening itself that becomes the origin
of the phenomenon to be studied” (p. 77)