Blog Post #5

1. The difference between hearing and listening is that while listening, you are actively taking in the information or meaning of what you’re hearing. But if only hearing and not listening as well, one isn’t taking in or trying to understanding the meaning or information of what is being heard. People can simply hear a noise without putting any thought to it, or actually try to understand what they’re hearing. Perhaps if one thinks something they’re hearing has valuable information or meaning, they might listen to it. Structural features can inform how we listen, because our personal biases and so on might effect how we’re taking in the information or understanding the meaning behind it.
2. Schafer and Krukowski discuss the relationship between sound and space by speaking about how sound is something always around us, weather we realize it or not. Sound of one’s breath, environment, such as birds, people talking, traffic, etc. Sound is in the air.