Re: [microsound] microsound kiosk

[Christos Carras <ear@xxxxxxxxx>]

i agree that mapping is a central (but not simple) notion. sometimes i think
people can get carried away and imagine that the "translation rules" used
for a particular mapping process have some kind of objectivity or innate
value that is confered on the resulting sound (e.g. some crude types of
sonification). a bit like the way "reification" (to use a terribly out of
fashion concept) becomes a pseudo-objective characteristic of what are in
fact relations.

also analysis - resynthesis (perhaps a type of mapping as well) seems to me
to be a defining notion

likewise "simulation" - of space, timbre etc.

finally "interactivity" (perhaps the field with the most research these
days?) which again poses the question of the nature of the interface and its
potential for defining the processes whilst making them seem "second nature"
to use a term that Adorno was fond of as indicating a dangerous
forgetfulness.

Christos



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