The Soundscape: Our Sonic Environment And The Tuning Of The World by R. Murray Schafer

Author:R. Murray Schafer [Неизв.]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Publisher: Inner Traditions Bear & Company
Published: 1993-09-30T14:00:00+00:00

Sound Contexts Throughout this chapter sound has been considered in separate compartments. Acoustics and psychoacoustics have been dissociated from semantics and aesthetics. It is traditional to divide the study of sound in this way. The physicist and engineer study acoustics; the psychologist and physiologist study psychoacoustics; the linguist and communications specialist study semantics, while to the poet and composer is left the domain of aesthetics.

But this will not do. Too many misunderstandings and distortions lie along the edges separating these compartments. Interfaces are missing. Let us follow through a few specimen sounds to understand the nature of the problem. Consider first the sample pair of sounds in the following table.

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