From physics to sound: Comments on van den Doel, ICAD 2004

  • Authors:
  • Kees van den Doel

  • Affiliations:
  • The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

  • Venue:
  • ACM Transactions on Applied Perception (TAP)
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

Wherever we are, what we hear is mostly noise. When we ignore it, it disturbs us. When we listen to it, we find it fascinating. The sound of a truck at 50 mph. Static between the stations. Rain. We want to capture and control these sounds, to use them, not as sound effects, but as musical instruments.---John Cage on the future of music---from a lecture given in 1937