For this soundscape project, I chose the route of creating a
meditation on the height and extensiveness of our social and economic being in
the form of loud buzzing coming from a large and busy airport. I focused mainly
on the sounds emitting from jet engines and planes departing as well as the
bustling of people to further lend the sense that the listeners were in fact
hearing an airport. McLuhan says, “One must be disinterested, accept that a
sound is a sound…give up the illusion…of order, expressions of sentiment,
and…our inherited aesthetic claptrap. The highest purpose is to have no
purpose…Everything we do is music” (McLuhan & Fiore 119). I try to drive
this point by making these sounds background noise to the person we imagine
sitting in the airport waiting for his or her next flight. The presumed person
has no interest in what is going on around him or her, but rather experiences a
sort of tunnel vision that removes focus from his or her surroundings. All of
that noise is essentially elevator music to that person’s ears.
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