The long extract:
‘With such an enlarged acoustic mirror, sound may figure as an increasingly relevant and important category to offer the self a new set of codes by which to operate, as a medium intrinsically communicational and heterogeneous, and by which to negotiate and utilize the increasingly animate and telepresent world, for sound embeds itself in the creation of meanings, while remaining elusive to their significations.’
Referenced version:
LaBelle posits (2006, p.16) that sound art’s relevance is linked to its diverse communicate properties, both for the self and the world, and its many shades of meaning: ‘sound may figure as an increasingly relevant and important category to offer the self a new set of codes by which to operate, as a medium intrinsically communicational and heterogeneous… for sound embeds itself in the creation of meanings, while remaining elusive to their significations.’
LaBelle, 2006. Background Noise: Perspectives on Sound Art. New York: The Continuum International Publishing Group Inc.