4 Apr
2007
4 Apr
'07
4:01 p.m.
On 4/4/07, Ivica Ico Bukvic <ico(a)vt.edu> wrote:
I invite you to please read then more on the topic of acousmatic music.
FWIW, what exactly constitutes a pattern? If there is a rhythmic vibration
of an industrial piece of machinery, how is that different (from a
"definition" standpoint) from a rhythmic drumming? I think you are mixing up
pattern with cognition. But even if we consider cognition as a point of
contention, the machinery has a purpose and a role and as such its
manifestation is not meaningless at all.
It is different because a human being is listening to the drumming and
choosing what sounds pleasing and what does not. A single rhythmic
vibration in a piece of machinery is one thing, but rarely does a
factory have one machine. And the machines are generally not tuned to
each other nor adjusted to make more pleasing sounds. I suspect the
average factory worker would be fired if he changed the settings on
machines in order to compose music with them.
There is a fundamental difference between listening to something and
learning to find value in it, and listening to something and changing
it to make sounds in which you find value.
There is a pretty well-developed science behind how people recognize
pattern in what they hear and experience emotions in response to it.
What is traditionally referred to as "music" didn't exist by accident;
sentient animals create it according to their experience, which means
there is a reason we respond to it. It was not just one of the many
ways to arrange sound, it was the one that drew people's attention.
-Chuckk
--
http://www.badmuthahubbard.com
apparent that all sounds have beauty that simply needs
to be uncovered
regardless of their source. This art is also known as acousmatic music
(or a
sound removed from its source).
I don't buy that. Factories and machinery have vibrations created and
enforced by hundreds of forces working at different rates and in
different directions, caused by objects that were assembled with very
little regard for the sound they made. A song bird actually hears
what it is doing, and makes patterns based on the sound.