“There is no knowing beyond that membrane, the meniscus of death. What can be seen from here is distorted, refracted. All we can know are those untrustworthy glimpses--that and rumour. The prattle. The dead gossip: it is the reverberation of that gossip against the surface tension of death that the better mediums hear. It is like listening to whispered secrets through a toilet door. It is a crude and muffled susurrus.” KnowsDeathSecretKnowingDoorsListeningSurfaceMediumsTensionGossipGlimpseToiletsCrudeRumoursUntrustworthyMembranesReverberation Author:China Mieville
“Sometimes listening to music can motivate you. It can. But if you're a musician, that isn't always the way to get new ideas because you don't want to take somebody else's ideas. You need to find your own. So if you go to different artistic mediums, whether it's dance or it's visual arts or films or books, stories, sometimes it gets you hearing things, hearing progressions that you wouldn't come up with if you were just listening to other music because you don't want to copy progressions you've just heard.” IfsWayWantNeedsArtBookIdeasDifferentSometimesStoriesFilmHeardListeningMusicianMusic IsCome UpHearingMediumsArtisticVisualsCopiesNew IdeasListening To MusicProgressionJust ListenVisual ArtListening To OthersHearing Things Author:Tori Amos
“The medium of podcasting and the personal nature of it, the relationship you build with your listeners and the relationship they have with you - they could be just sitting there, chuckling and listening... there's nothing like that.” ListeningSittingMediumsListenersPodcasting Author:Marc Maron
“Glenn and I were listening to a radio show in the car, and he said, "Glass Eye Pix should do radio plays." I loved the idea of working in a different medium. We've made comics, books, movies, video games, models, advent calendars, why wouldn't we try audio plays?” ShouldTryingMadeSaidBookIdeasDifferentPlayShowsEyeGamesCarListeningModelsGlassesRadioVideoMediumsCalendarsAdventAudioRadio Plays Author:Larry Fessenden
“When I'm listening to stuff on the computer or through a horrible little speaker on my phone, and then I hear the real version with the bass and everything, I sometimes don't like it as much. I definitely believe that any medium is viable in that respect.” BelieveLittlesRealSometimesStuffListeningComputerPhonesHorribleVersionsMediumsSpeakersBass Author:Kevin Shields
“When I first got interested in comics at the time I was studying architecture and I discovered comics as a medium through listening to Art who was courting me by reading me Little Nemo and Krazy Kat by George Herriman. It was really very effective.” FirstsLittlesArtReadingStudyListeningArchitectureMediumsNemo Author:Francoise Mouly
“In a cool medium, the audience is an active constituent of the viewing or listening experience. A girl wearing open-mesh silk stockings or glasses is inherently cool and sensual because the eye acts as a surrogate hand in filling in the low-definition image thus engendered. Which is why boys make passes at girls who wear glasses.” HandsEyeGirlBoysAudienceListeningLowsGlassesDefinitionsActiveMediumsSensualFillingSilkConstituentsStockingsSurrogatesMeshFilling In Author:Marshall McLuhan