与鲸目动物一起创作:通过实用的zoömusicology对抗人类例外主义

Q1 Arts and Humanities
Alex South
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尽管鲸鱼和海豚发出了地球上最复杂的声音,但它们几乎没有政治代表或“声音”,尽管过去的反捕鲸运动取得了成功,但它们仍然面临着来自纠缠、船只撞击和水下噪音污染的生存威胁,这一事实有点自相矛盾。在这篇文章中,我认为这种悖论是由对人类例外论的信仰所支撑的——以音乐是人类独有的这一说法为例——并回顾了与这一说法相矛盾的生物学和音乐学证据。然而,克服这一悖论可能需要的不仅仅是逻辑论证,我调查了座头鲸歌曲现场录音在人类音乐作品中的使用情况,并从“距离”和“差异”的维度对其进行了分析。我认为,尽管认识到人类音乐和座头鲸歌曲之间的连续性很重要,但更有效地使用鲸鱼歌曲录音也需要注意人类和鲸鱼发声之间的差异,以避免陷入天真的拟人化的风险。这种以动物为中心的创作声音将根据“差异而无距离”和“接近而无冷漠”的理想运作,以促进人类和其他动物之间的移情关系。
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Composing with cetaceans: Countering human exceptionalism through a practical zoömusicology
There is something paradoxical about the fact that while whales and dolphins produce some of the most complex vocalizations on Earth, they have little political representation or ‘voice’ and despite the success of past anti-whaling campaigns, continue to face existential threats from entanglement, ship strikes and underwater noise pollution. In this article, I argue that this paradox is sustained by a belief in human exceptionalism – exemplified by the claim that music is unique to humans – and review biological and musicological evidence that contradicts this claim. Overcoming the paradox may require more than logical argument, however, and I survey the use of humpback whale song field recordings in works of human music, analysing them along the dimensions of ‘distance’ and ‘difference’. I argue that although it is important to recognize the continuity between human music and humpback song, a more effective use of whale song recordings also requires attention to be paid to the differences between human and whale vocalizations to avoid the risk of collapsing into naïve anthropomorphism. Such an animalcentric compositional voice would operate according to the ideals of ‘difference without distance’ and ‘proximity without indifference’ to facilitate empathic relationships between humans and other animals.
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Journal of Interdisciplinary Voice Studies
Journal of Interdisciplinary Voice Studies Arts and Humanities-Literature and Literary Theory
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