Re: [microsound] Money/Mouth

[Michal Seta <mis@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

"This term is acousmatic (4). It refers to a theoretical and practical compositional approach, to particular listening and realization conditions, and to sound projection strategies. Its origin is attributed to Pythagoras (6th C. BC) who, rumour has it, taught his classes ?only verbally ? from behind a partition, in order to force his students to focus all their attention on his message. In 1955, during the early stages of musique concr?te, the writer J?r?me Peignot used the adjective acousmatic to define a sound which is heard and whose source is hidden. By shrouding ?behind? the speaker (a modern Pythagorean partition) any visual elements (such as instrumental performers on stage) that could be linked to perceived sound events, acousmatic art presents sound on its own, devoid of causal identity, thereby generating a flow of images in the psyche of the listener".

(From the article previously refered to by Christopher:
http://www.sonicartsnetwork.org/ARTICLES/ARTICLE1996DHOMONT.html)

On Thu, 16 May 2002 14:53:26 -0600
David Fodel <DFodel@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 	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.