How do we as sound artists deal with ocularcentrism?

I think that western ocularcentrism has so ingrained itself into the way we as people live our lives it would have to take an enormous cultural and technological change (one perhaps leading to the other) We have been focusing on visual art as early as 45,500 years, and aural art has been recorded as early as 40,000 years ago. With visual art in many cases it is recorded intrinsically and can be seen as long as it is preserved. When it comes to recording and replaying sound it has been a journey from musical notation to music boxes to the phonograph. This process is (compared to the history of visual art) a modern development. In sound alone there is a lot of catching up to do it feels. In relation to the rest of the senses there has not really been much development in technologies to record/recreate smell/taste/touch besides just producing the actual sources, there have been some inroads but it is nowhere near the level of sound and sight. 

We as sound artists are in a decent position: audio drama as a way to present a narrative is becoming more mainstream with many shows not angling to be turned into tv shows or films, music and sound art aren’t particularly considered “incomplete” without visuals. I think creating pieces that focus on sound and don’t encourage a listener to use their ‘inner eye’ to conjure up images, instead creating sound art with an accousomatic approach, caring about sounds themselves instead of their sources.

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