Timbre, Identity, Difference: Witnessing Polyphony in Darkness
Timbre, Identity, Difference: Witnessing Polyphony in Darkness

Summary/Abstract: This paper tries to study timbre not only as an attribute of self-sameness for providing identity in sound but as difference, contradiction, and variation. It is divided into two sections: Timbre and Identity, explored through the works of Ihde, Derrida, and Nancy; Timbre and Difference, studied through the works of Benjamin, Ingarden, and Bakhtin. I then take up darkness, a positive openness for the simultaneous existence of voices, as the dimension of timbre in polyphony.

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