Music made entirely of treated found sounds raises the question of objects singing

Evidence

What if we were to take Richter’s provocation seriously – what would a song without a singer be like? What would it be like, that is to say, if objects themselves could sing? It’s a question that connects fairy tales with cybernetics, and listening to Alphabet 1968, I’m fittingly reminded of a filmic space in which magic and mechanism meet: J F Sebastian’s apartment in Blade Runner. — Mark Fisher, Ghosts of My Life, 337

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the Death Ambient / hauntological music corpus and to Blade Runner’s worldbuilding — could cross-reference with ADDENDUM article (1) on objects/infrastructure taking on life-like agency. — connects to: Found-sound music evokes orphaned memories belonging to anonymous others — Mark Fisher, Ghosts of My Life: Writings on…, 336; Music made only from field recordings asks what songs objects sing — Mark Fisher, Ghosts of My Life: Writings on…, 337; Music became spatialized rather than an object offered for contemplation — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 655 (+1 more)
• STORYSTEM: The idea of a singerless song — objects singing for themselves, audible only in unoccupied rooms — is a strong speculative fiction seed about a world just adjacent to ours.
• QUESTION: Worth chasing: what does ‘a song without a singer’ concretely reveal about the difference between composition and performance in hauntological/death ambient practice?

Broader Connections

• Music made only from field recordings asks what songs objects sing #corroborates (0.95) — Mark Fisher, Ghosts of My Life, 337
• Ordinary objects can be transformed into musical instruments through attention #expands (0.75) — Schafer, Murray R, The Soundscape- Our Sonic Environment…, 695
• Music became spatialized rather than an object offered for contemplation #qualifies (0.70) — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 655