Tuning the Ear
Tuning the Ear is a box-set that invites for an interdisciplinary and multi-sensuous study of the ear. By presenting an interactive listening situation where the listeners are to engage with the many different objects contained in the box, Tuning the Ear encourages the reader to listen to their surroundings in new ways and furthermore to listen to their own way of hearing. Tuning the Ear presents a new way of exploring the ear that take both physical, physiological, mental and aesthetic demands into account.
Listening to the Ear
Hearing and listening are the two most common words used to describe the act of perceiving sound through the ears. Within Sound Studies, scholars has often considered hearing as a purely physical mechanism that primarily serves as a departure point for the more intellectual act of listening. Following these lines of thoughts, hearing is passive. Listening is active. However, is hearing really that static? What happens to our “natural” or “objective” hearing sense when it is is aging? When it is sick or just challenged by external factors as temperature or room acoustics? And what happens when our ears are hearing through technology?
Tuning Kit
Tuning the Ear contains a full kit for preparing the ears and thereby tuning them into an aesthetic listening to hearing. The box contains a row of objects such as a tuning fork, hearing aids, ear plugs, a pin and a swap which are to be used in conjunction with the hearing tasks displayed in four small booklets. In addition to the hearing tasks, the box contains a record with music made on a hearing test machine, a score for a piece for hands and ears, a poster, and a post card.
Artistic Research
Tuning the Ear is based upon the artistic based PhD Tuning the Ear – Exploring Conceptions and Conditions of Hearing made by Sandra Boss, funded and published by The Faculty of Arts, University of Aarhus. The research project was first published in 2019, and followed by a public defense. The thesis has been revised and reprinted in 2021.
Tuning the Ear comes in an exclusive silk-screened printed box. Numbered limited edition of 75.
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CONTENT
Booklets
The Ear (Sandra Boss, 2021)
Testing the Ear (Sandra Boss 2021)
The Deaf Ear (Sandra Boss 2021)
Curing the Ear (Sandra Boss 2021)
Objects
1 x Ear Plugs
1 x Hearing Aid
1 x 440 Hz (A) Tuning Fork
1 x Stone
1 x Bottle
1 x Swap
1 x Flash light
2 x Audiogram
LP
The Acoustic Appraiser
By Sandra Boss, 2018
Released by BIN (BIN 00-32)
| A1 | Testing Pure Order | |
| A2 | Surface Stimulator | |
| A3 | Calibrating To Occluded Ear | |
| B1 | Masking Disorder | |
| B2 | Hypothetical Treshold | |
| B3 | Coclea Stimulation | |
| B4 | Word Recognition |
Postcard
The Snail
Design: Bitten Fangel
Text: Sandra Boss
Poster
Hearing Curves
Concept: Sandra Boss
Design: Bitten Fangel
Book
Tuning the Ear – Exploring Conditions and Conceptions of Hearing
PhD Dissertation by Sandra Boss
Faculty of Arts, Aarhus University 2018/2021
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TUNING THE EAR
Concept/ Text / Music: Sandra Boss
Design/layout: Bitten Fangel
Printed by Trükiviis OÜ, Tallinn, Estonia and Uttenthal, Denmark
Published with generous support from the Danish Arts Council
STEVNS AVANTGARDE FORSYNING 2021 (SAF3)
