Faced with the dread of war and an immediate geography that he compared to a “madmen’s delusion,” Sartre took his gaze upwards to the weather balloon and its surrounding atmosphere to find refuge. His duties consisted of launching weather balloons, monitoring them every two hours and radioing the meteorological observations to another station. On September 1939, Jean-Paul Sartre was assigned to serve the French military in a meteorological station in Alsace behind the frontline. Vertical Dimension: Early Experiments in Ballooning, Sounding, and Silence Here, the balloon is defined broadly as an envelope for air, breath, and lighter-than-air gases, including toy balloons, weather balloons, hydrogen and hot-air balloons. In this article, I propose exploring the balloon as a sonic device that turns our attention to the element of air and opens space for musical practices outside classical traditions. For Bachelard, an aerial imagination brings forth a sense of the sonorous, of transparency and mobility. '” Gaston Bachelard, in Air and Dreams, calls for a philosophy of poetic imagination that grows out of air’s movement and fluidity. Air is confused with absence because it “never takes place in the mode of an ‘entry into presence. It allows itself to be forgotten,” writes Irigaray. As such, it escapes appearing as (a) being. The philosopher Luce Irigaray argues that Western thought has forgotten air despite being founded on it. In between metaphors of beginning and end, the balloon enables dialogues about air, breath, levity, and vibration. Psychologists encourage the use of the balloon as an analogy for death, while astronomers use it as a representation for the cosmological inflation of the universe. For a child, the ephemeral life of the balloon contrasts with the joy of its bright colors and squeaky sounds. Yet, they are also part of larger systems, weather sciences, warfare and surveillance technologies, colonialist forces and the casual UFO conspiracy theory. They are part of our rituals of loss, celebration and apology. Balloons are ghost-like entities floating through the cracks of places and memories. I see them silently dangling from electrical cables and tethered to branches of trees. This specific text is controlled via the Bottom Description area of the Edit Performers section of your admin panel.I see them in the streets and in the subway, at dollar stores, hospital rooms, and parties. If you have additional questions please file a support ticket here. You can edit it in the admin panel here and there are additional tutorials here. This specific text is controlled via the Top Description area of the Edit Performers section of your admin panel.
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