MUS 5 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Pierre Schaeffer, Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Semicircular Canals
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Sound: mechanical vibration transmitted through an elastic medium (air: typically detected with ears, but also senses with other body parts and our relationship with the environment. Hearing: hearing: involuntary physical response; enables perception of sound, listening: voluntary, cognitive attention; enables interpretation of. Pauline oliveros: deep listening: focused listening: active; attention to particular sound, global listening: passive; expanded attention to entirety of sound. Pierre schaeffer: 4 modes of listening: ecouter, oiur, entendre, comprendre. Michael chion: simplified schaeffer"s ideas: causal listening: listening to gather info about cause/source, semantic listening: code or language to interpret a message (spoken sound language, morse, reduced listening: listening, removing cause or meaning. Sound object: sonic entity employed for its properties; time-based, curtis roads: basic unit of musical structure to include complex sound events on a time scale, ranging from fraction of a second to several. Historical context for the sound object: eric satie developed furniture music (1917), which was repetitive and background music.
