On 4/4/07, Ivica Ico Bukvic <ico@xxxxxx> wrote:
> > 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. 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 _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/linux-audio-user
