Intermedial listening: Aurality from a Rhetorical Perspective

Abstract

The notion of an intermedial listening is posed, conceived as the aural response to certain media stimuli that seek to transcend the limits of their own medial configuration. Such listening involves the recognition and interpretation of conventions consolidated from what can be defined as an intermedial sonic language. We start from the idea that talking about listening, as a mediated phenomenon, is limited if different literacies and media specificities are not considered, as well as an intermedial aural historicity. The possibilities of in praesentia and in absentia listening are also problematized, to later illustrate how three dynamics of intermedial rhetorization –ideasthesic punctuation, intermedial synecdoche and parodic setup– activate situations of intermedial listening by alluding to the aural experience of other medialities.