Reflections on hand in.

Having some time to think on the hand in for the Global Sonic Cultures Unit, I feel there are a few things personally I would like to fix about my approach to this kind of research in the future. Whilst I am first year and perhaps it’s important to cover the basics of sound art, I felt that my writing wasn’t entirely reflective of ‘Global’ sonic cultures, and more reflective on the West. This being partially effected by what I had in front of me (owning a few John Cage books in the past). My goal when talking about Muzak was to try and credit it’s legacy as one entwined or symbiotic with Sound Art, as it’s an often overlooked ‘genre’ which is parodied or looked down on. I am not sure how well I achieved this goal. I would’ve liked to have referenced more sound theorists and cultures with a relationship to background music. I had to cut a segment on Japanese Background Music in the 80s, as it felt light on sources and I was running out of words. I also would’ve liked to have mentioned a more diverse category of western sound art practitioners, due to finding a lot of material of Eno and Cage talking about Muzak, I felt there were ample sources to link the subjects together and get across my points, but feel I got lost in the sourcing and wasn’t quite true to what I initially wanted to explore. I found it very difficult to be concise, perhaps the topic was too broad, my word count was over but I can’t help but feel like I could’ve said more.