RE: [LAU] Re: That must suck. For me it's about beauty -- music is justone path

From: Ivica Ico Bukvic <ico@email-addr-hidden>
Date: Wed Apr 04 2007 - 14:37:56 EEST

> Marcos Guglielmetti escribe:
> > Maybe noise is beauty... I dont know... the sounds of the ocean are like
> > noice, just like the wind too... I think this is beautiful, but, because
> I
> > dont like the car's, bus, planes, trains, etc., sounds, I think there is
> > almost no beauty into the industrial age sounds (factories, etc.)

It seems likely that you don't like these sounds because of their
psychoacoustic association. To put it bluntly if every morning you were
being prematurely woken up by a beautiful bird song of a bird who lives on a
tree next to your window, I am pretty sure that you would eventually learn
to dislike that sound as much as you currently dislike the sound of your
alarm clock. All sounds we are aware of are simply a combination of sine
tones perceptible by our ears. Therefore, the only difference between a
sound of an ocean and a steam engine is ultimately their "recipe." If you
consider all sounds on this, much more equal plane, then it becomes rather
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).

> You've discovered the point. Men are capable of creating beauty but
> unfortunately nature is much more capable. The harder you try to

My take is that art is our attempt at emulating nature and realizing our
ineptness (pointlessness?) in matching its beauty. For this reason, we tend
to use art as our response (perception?) to nature. In this respect,
man-made contraptions are just another extension of nature and its laws.

Ico

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