tailieunhanh - Sonic Art & Sound Design- P5

Sonic Art & Sound Design- P5:Sonic art is a new art form, or rather, forms. As we shall see, it can encompass a wide range of activities, perhaps wider than almost any other art form. It is an unusual case, based upon a medium that has traditionally been regarded as inferior and subservient to other creative or expressive forms. | ORIGINS AND DEVELOPMENTS A Historical Perspective Introduction No one knows with any certainty when man became consciously aware of the significance of sound and more importantly of the possibility of controlling and using it for other than purely practical cupping of the hand behind the ear to focus a distant sound is a gesture so old as to be more-or-less instinctive. It is only a small step from this idea to that of placing the hands in a horn-like form in front of the mouth in order to help project the voice. Here for the first time we see a deliberate attempt to influence the sounds that we make and hear. In these instances the purpose is simple vocal communication but there is substantial evidence to suggest that ancient man used technology to control sound and that he did so for quite complex can certainly assume that cultures much older than ours were aware of at least some of the ways in which they could control sound. Indeed we can still find long-established and specialised forms of vocal communication in remote and mountainous Sound without electricity Round about the time of the last Ice Age the first recognisable musical instruments started to appear and people began to make use of the acoustic properties of particular spaces and places. Early instruments seem to have been predominantly based upon natural objects such as conch shells and hollow bones. Several researchers2 have also noted that cave paintings are often to be found in locations where the local acoustics have unusual qualities and this has led to speculation that these places may have been venues for early forms of multimedia Howard Rheingold4 goes further and suggests that the combination of cave paintings unusual acoustics costume and other practices such as fasting sleep deprivation etc. may have been combined to create a low-technology form of virtual reality that could be used as part of rituals initiation rites and so forth. Whether or not