Following on from the two previous volumes, this book investigates the composite geographies that are organized around the musical phenomenon, sound and silence, expanding the boundaries of the spatial phenomenon beyond the disciplinary barriers of any science. This does not mean the end of scientific discipline as a method of cognition and a way of organizing sensibilities, handling the infinity of substance in plural gestures. Plurality in general is necessarily conditioned by space and time, and is only thinkable within these concepts that we designate, from this point of view, as the principle of individuation. The construction of rigorous knowledge about the world is tangential to the systematic deepening of the subject. This unbridled deepening of the discipline in which we are, delivers us to the door of another and another discipline, from where we can be with the Other. In this place of succession and causality, each sound is an uncontained indication of the world itself and silence the possibility of simultaneous existence. The reality that is derived from this is attested by the form that is inherent to it in each system of thought, by the permanence or substantiality that we attribute to it. The quality (or accident) of the world derives from that very form which makes possible the relative truth of things. From there we derive the intelligibility of matter in a principle of sufficient reason in which sound appears implied as the will of the world, simultaneously subject and object of experience, in which space is the principle determined by the relation to extension, position, and in which time is the foundation of being from the point of view of duration, succession. The essential relativity of the world as representation, a relativity inherent in its form and from which it derives, is organized into forms of knowledge and abstraction that refer to the imagined nature of things. We communicate through images, and concepts function as representations of representations, transforming immediate intuitive representations, through reason and reflection, into abstract representations, such as a world map.

Excerpt from “Apresentação”, Ana Francisca Azevedo, pp-3-4

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