The contemplation of sound invites us to account for the subjugation of the Tiny and the Great.
Sound fills. Fills what? Space, but invisibly. Sound flattens. It can knock us off our feet, even when dulcet. Sound is being used in the Gulf of Aden this very day to bring pirates low, depressed, sick, ineffectual. And push them out of cargo ships’ spaces.
The contemplation of sound reminds us of the interconnectedness of the full five senses. The English word “space” comes from the Latin spatium, meaning room, area, distance, all visually perceived. Yet sound, in the realm of hearing, fills—removes—space that’s in the realm of sight.
There are sensors that allow scientists to see sound. And we all of us have sensors that allow us to feel sound’your gut can feel sound, as every go-goer who’s stood in front of a club speaker knows. From now on when we contemplate space, let’s contemplate it in all five sense realms.
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