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Just a few slides from my lecture on Sound at Polimoda (Florence, Italy), May 2013
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SOUND n. A mechanical wave that is an oscillation of pressure transmitted through a solid, liquid, or gas, composed of frequencies within the range of hearing.
Analyzing sound as a transient experience over time
Birdsong SLOWDOWN like a magnifying glass to
the Wing
of a Butter Fly
You may find a work of art
Immeasurable
Measurable
Pitch Volume Loudness
TIMBRE
TIMBRE
Timbre has been called "the psychoacoustician's multidimensional waste-basket category for everything that cannot be labeled pitch or loudness.”
- McAdams and Bregman 1979
airy, ambient, babbly, bangy, barky, blowy, boomy, bouncy, brassy, breathy, bright, buzzy, colorful, cackling, chattering, clacky, clanky, clappy, clattery, clear, clinky, cool, crashy, creaky, corrupt, dark, dinny, dry, echoey, ethereal, faint, flat, focused, golden, harsh, heavy, hummy, jabbery, jangle, light, mellow, metall ic, moony, murmuring, muted, nasa l , no i sy , note , pattering, piercing, pink noise, putting, pure, racket, raspy, rattling, raucous, reedy, resonant, reverberation, ringing, roaring, rounded, rumbly, saturated, shouty, shrill, strained, shrieky, singing, slamming, smashing, smooth, snorting, softness, splashy, sqawking, static, strident, strained, tenor, tinny, thin, tone color, tooty, thudding, thumping, thundering, twangy, unfocused, vibrato, war m, wet , wh inny, wh iny , whispery, white noise
Factors of SOUND DNA
• Pitch, Volume • Source (Human
vs. non-human)
• Space • Material • Clear/Pure • Noise/corruption/
quasi-noise (dissonance
• Repetition/Mantra
GENES
ENVIRONMENT
N E V E R underes t imate the power of the spoken w o r d t o c o n v e y creative visions
H O W E V E R speech is a sound. and as a pure sound, it can be treated as such. Consideration of all other factors of Sound DNA is fundamental.
SPACE
MATERIAL
PURE CLEAN SOUND
PURE CLEAN SOUND
PURE CLEAN SOUND
PURE CLEAN SOUND
PURE CLEAN SOUND
NOISE
n. Noise is a term often used to refer to an unwanted sound. In science and engineering, noise is an undesirable component that obscures a wanted signal.
DISSONANCE (Quasi Noise)
DISSONANCE/CADENCE =
CONFLICT/RESOLUTION
MANTRA MANTRA MANTRA
MANTRA MANTRA MANTRA
MANTRA
MANTRA
MANTRA MANTRA MANTRA MANTRA