Re: [microsound] miles of styles of philosophes

[jeff gburek <tsazmaniac@xxxxxxxxx>]

> 
>  > Also certain sounds are
> > culturally constructed as being connected to
> certain emotions (such as the
> > connection of low droning sounds to feelings of
> gloom) 
> 
> I find low droning sounds connected to feelings of
> calm, solidarity, 
> stability, and a resting place, especially when
> they're accompanied by a 
> bit of white noise, for example in large-scale
> air-conditioning systems. 
> (Air-con can make beautiful, beautiful noises). It's
> only when they're 
> dissonant that they're gloomy. 

 this is also mind-blowing. i am often dealing with
this very discrepnancy over what drones "signify" for
people...a friend recently did a compare contrast
doing extreme nosie drones and placing tracks of
acoustic tamboura drones and harmonium next to them.
the volume level is often the only thing that makes
for the tension we might associate with the dissonant
drone as opposed to the harmonized one. but arent all
drones in a sense harmonized? even if the intervals
are not standard pitch intervals it is their constant
relation to one another that gives it the quality of
drone?

-jg


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