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

On 4/4/07, Ivica Ico Bukvic <ico@email-addr-hidden> wrote:
> > 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).

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.

-Chuckk

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