Theoretical papers often quote Plato’s Cave – such a nice, primitive dawn of consciousness image, with its shadowy representations flickering sootily across the cave’s rear wall and the line of onlookers warming their backs by the fire! Strangely there is scant mention of the crackle of burning wood, or the sounds of those protagonists prancing around the flames, not to mention the perfectly formed sound reflections returning from the cave’s surfaces. With a moment’s contemplation it should be clear that the ‘captive audience’ seated in the cave would have understood significantly more from their audio environment than from the appallingly low-tech visuals!
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on July 5, 2005in Textstags: essays
The Plural Forest is lodged here, in an un-adulterated state, as a text that was written in 1994 primarily as a result of my research travels throughout northern Thailand and Vietnam and is co-incident with the gestation period of the “Silent Forest” project.
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