Although Ceraso and Alexander had many similarities in their articles, Ceraso's main point emphasized sound through other methods than literal hearing while Alexander focuses on sound in a more traditional sense. Alexander also references Glenn Gould in his article stating that "Gould was amongst the most forward thinking and experimental classically trained musicians to take advantage of a wide range of possibilities of recording technologies. Gould recognized that recording would not only make available a wide repertoire of music, but would also challenge and change how people experienced music." A large part of Alexander's article talks about how technology changed the way that sound was received and created. Ceraso states that " the multiple sensory modes through which sound is experienced in and with the body. I offer the concept of multimodal listening to expand how we think about and practice listening as a situated, full-bodied act." While this can include the role of technology and modern advances in relation to the experience of sound, this point is focused primarily on the way that sound is received and not created. Many great examples of this were given like the visual of water moving in ripples because of sound or the rumbling of trucks passing by but these are two of many examples. One great example that this reminded me of was a play that I watched in high school at the steppenwolf theater in Chicago. The main actor of the play was deaf and throughout the entire show, he knew what the cues were for his lines and movement through the vibrations he felt in his earpiece and the floor from the other actors words. Ceraso also states that multi-modality has primarily been used when referenced in a digital aspect but that is slowly changing so "equating multi-modality with the digital gives our students a falsely narrow sense of the complexity of multi-modal experience". I feel like this contradicts with Alexanders point that technology is one of the most important aspects of the development of sound. One functionality of technology that Alexander mentions is the ability to close the gap between performer and listener. Although I think that this point is true because creating multi-modal content has become more accessible because of technology, technology isn't the only main way to remix and create more media. Ceraso makes a wonderful point that our senses need to be reintroduced to sensations in our immediate environment instead of through different devices and screens that we are always focused on. While both articles have many valid points, I agree more with Ceraso on the fact that technology can be helpful but we have become so dependent on it for content, that we have learned to ignore the media that is literally around us so it has become necessary to regress back to being more aware in order to advance forward with our means of communication and understanding through media.
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