RE: [microsound] Money/Mouth

[David Fodel <DFodel@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

	Christopher Sorg wrote: <Surely an over-simplification but, in many
ways, a laptop is more
> like a radio than a traditional instrument.>
> 
The acousmatic properties of a laptop can be similar to a Radio, if they are
representational sounds, in the sense that they are visibly divorced from
their source. But if the sound is generated within the laptop itself by some
natively occuring processes, isit still acousmatic? 

Is the spoken word acousmatic because I can't see the vibrations of the
speakers vocal chords? Or the thought processes by which the words were
formed and transmitted?

I don't think so.

David Fodel
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> From: 	Christopher Sorg
> Reply To: 	microsound
> Sent: 	Thursday, May 16, 2002 2:34 PM
> To: 	microsound
> Subject: 	Re: [microsound] Money/Mouth
> 
> On Thu, 16 May 2002, pelagius pelagius wrote:
> 
> > ...Recorded pop music (i.e. ALL pop music) IS acousmatic.  The idea 
> > of acousmatics seems to me to be academia's way of coming to terms with
> with 
> > developments in popular culture that took place around the turn of the 
> > century.
> 
> Not to beat this into the ground, but the acousmatic concept is not an
> invention of 20th century academia.  It's a Pythagorean concept,
> as Pythagoras lectured behind a screen in order to draw attention to the
> subject matter rather than the source.  Or maybe he just had stage fright
> or a bad hair day ;)
> 
> As Michael pointed out earlier, acousmatic performances were a necessity
> for early electronic music, ala Max Matthews, and are still a necessity
> today for people who use software like CSound.  It's like a raytracing for
> sound...lots and lots of rendering time.
> 
> Surely an over-simplification but, in many ways, a laptop is more
> like a radio than a traditional instrument.
> 
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>      Christopher Sorg
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>  The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
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