February,12,2010

Pitch/Tone/Timbre/Rhythm
Focus on them when you listen
-Practice to listen these four things.
-What materials makes sounds

Constancy vs. Variation

How do artists/designers use sound to make people FEEL something?

Sound Forms and How They Affect Us
Perspective Space,"Realistic"
(Environmental sound)-thinking and reasoning/orderly and logical


Abstract sound Forms-Feeling and sensing/ acting and intuiting
-simultaneity
-Transitions through a balance between constancy and variation
-Timbre
-rhythm
-pitch/tone
-Non- Music
Abstract sound examples
-american beauty, nike,sunny philly
-John oswald, beethoven's ninth streched
-hugo ball

Music
-Melody:repeatable phrase
-Harmony
-Beat

Abstract sound interpretations

Historical Roots
-Reformation 1500-1700 Europe:many people died: witch hunts
-Renaissance 1500-1800 Europe:invention/science
-Industrial Revolution 1700-1850 Western World:women- frail,dependent
-Art Press and Museums-Futurism, Surrealism,DADA, Fluxus

Underlying Our Interpretations
-Edgey: nature and the body are good
-Sublime: nature is awesome, or nature is dangerous
-Mysterious:rational education is for the working class, sensing and feeling are for the rich