National Sonic Territory

Self-publishing, Book Design, Bookbinding

110 × 175mm, 66pages
English

The research paper is submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Master of Arts in Fine Art and Design (Artistic Research), Royal Academy of Art, The Hague (KABK)


Author
/Candidate
Hsu Wai Lun @ mmmmor

Supervised by

Jasper Coppes


Graphic Design

Hsu Wai Lun and So Lai Ping @ mmmmor

Binding
So Lai Ping @ mmmmor

National Sonic Territory

The thesis revolves from the politics of sound and its affirmative qualities to the masses; how could it summon a community, and formulate a sense of solidarity? By the use of musical sound and non-musical sound, how could a community reject the others, to draw its political and physical territory? How does a nation-state employ sound to defend and how one use it to attack? Sometimes strong cultural sounds are appropriated by a modern nation, just to deliver a sense of futility–to resist is futile. Birds sing to make noise as a tool for marking territorial boundaries. Do we make noise to give the same statement?

Author/Candidate    Hsu Wai Lun @ mmmmor
Supervised by    Jasper Coppes
Graphic Design    Hsu Wai Lun and So Lai Ping @ mmmmor
Binding    So Lai Ping @ mmmmor