When we describe a thing, a person or a meeting, the simple question of what belongs in the picture becomes a methodological puzzle with serious practical and ethical consequences. A descriptive account touches the contours of what is being described, fluctuating between mere description and explanation and between paranoid and reparative writing. In our textual laboratory, we describe noise as a style of music and an example of cognitive multiplicity. Two accounts – of a concert and a noisy meeting – are put besides each other to explore methods, which allow us to understand noise not as an annoying otherness, but as an accessible source of multiple meanings. We suggest that reparative strategies of description, adding texture to the surface rather than uncovering the social forces beneath, broaden the field of describable experience while also enabling us to see the exclusion of people considered too noisy as a process with real effects.

当我们描述一个事物，一个人或一个会议时，关于图片中所包含内容的简单问题就变成了方法论难题，具有严重的实践和伦理后果。描述性叙述触及所描述内容的轮廓，在纯粹的描述和解释之间，以及在偏执和修复性写作之间波动。在我们的文字实验室中，我们将噪音描述为一种音乐风格和认知多样性的例子。演唱会和嘈杂的会议这两个方面彼此并列，以探讨方法，这些方法使我们不仅可以将噪音理解为令人讨厌的其他事物，而且可以将其理解为多种含义的来源。我们建议采用描述性的修复策略，在表面上添加纹理，而不是揭示其下面的社会力量，