The concept of speed in Gilles Deleuze in light of sound manipulation

Abstract

The paper proposes an approach to the notion of speed in the work of the French philosopher Gilles Deleuze and its implication on the concepts of body and thought through a confrontation with the empirical experience of sound manipulation. Divided into two parts, the first one aims to present an argument and propose an aesthetic experience. The condition for any sound sample to happen and apprehended by perception is its temporal unfolding. Empirical experience gives notice that a sound sample may have any of its sensitive qualities entirely reconfigured through a single procedure: the change in speed by which the sound happens. The article features eight sound samples aimed to point this idea, and goes to the second part, aimed to make an approach of some contexts in which the concept of speed works in the text of Deleuze and Deleuze-Guattari. Finally, we see that neither the concept of body, nor the thought reaches their conceptual sense if it is not considered the change in speed as their constituent element