Joel Ong: Sound Art
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Interested in how we listen to sound and the
different theories that come out of it
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Mr. Foley: talks about the presence of sound all
around us
What is Sound?
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If a tree falls in a forest…
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Sound with reference to a listener vs. the environment
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Modern philosophy: sound is always a
relationship (depending on how you move your head, position yourself,
relationship is always changing)
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Keywords: Tuning, Resonance, Feedback,
Environment
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Pythatgoras: 570BC to 495BC – phythagorial
theorem
o Interested
in harmony, listening intently to sounds, mathematical ratios, and geometry.
Realized that hitting different-sized objects creates different pitches
o Musica
Universalis – Harmony/Music of the Spheres
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Pythagoras proposed that all celestial bodies
all produce a unique hum based on their orbital resonance
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Earth actually sounds pretty dissonant compared
to other planets
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Acoustics: sound – sound is our perception of
sensation created by a vibrating source, that disturbs molecules of liquid,
gas, or solid, within certain range of frequencies
Cynatics
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Cynatics: TED Talk: Making Sound Visible through
Cynatics (Evan Grant)
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Objective and perceptual sides to sound
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Acoustic: frequency, amplitude, spectrum,
duration, velocity
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Perceptual: pitch
What is Listening?
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Removing other senses, what is the best way to
listen?
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Bernard Parmegiani – De Natura Sonorum sound
artist
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Max Neuhaus – Water Whistle Series (listen while
underwater)
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Can your ears blink?
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Carrie Ann Simpson: “Noise Cancellation:
Disrupting Audio Perception”
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Anechoic Chamber – whatever is in the chamber,
does not echo, there is no external sound source
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John Cage (1912-1992) – “Until I die, there will
be sounds”
o Went
to an anechoic chamber and still heard two sounds- high = nervous system, low =
blood circulation
o Notion
of silence: can we experience it while we are alive?
o 4’33”
– performance piece with no sound, each person’s perception is different
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My experience: watching it on an edited video is
much different than experiencing it in real life
o Also
composed with plants – amplified cacti, chess boards, tennis rackets, etc.
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