From the iPod to the Smartphone: Navigating the Spaces of the City

Abstract

The Apple iPod and before that the Sony Walkman are inherently technologies of sonic control; the placing of headphones around the ears permits a dramatic reorganization of the user’s soundworld, in effect empowering the ears of the user. Technology thus transforms the power of the senses.

Keywords

• Vecchi e nuovi spazi della musica / Old and new music spaces
• lo Squaderno No. 28