On Sonic Art

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Trevor Wishart, Simon Emmerson: On Sonic Art (1996, Taylor & Francis Group)

372 pages

English language

Published 1996 by Taylor & Francis Group.

ISBN:
978-1-134-37326-0
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An irrelevant speculation

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The point I disagree the most with Wishart is that I don't consider sound per se as interesting, and I don't quite understand why Wishart values perceptual reality this much. There's a burning desire in me to "hear", say, Pontragin duality - and that has nothing to do with any perceptual reality. Let's think about the history of mathematics. Before around the time of Riemann, mathematics was really just about properties of numbers, about finding roots of certain equations, etc. This for me is profoundly boring so that I wasn't interested in mathematics at all when I hadn't learn abstract algebra and didn't know what topology is. Now we more or less know that mathematics is a general science of structure and mechanism, the most general science of abstract synthesis. It now seemingly has nothing to do with number at all - though factually in the deeper levels they're still …

Subjects

  • Computer composition
  • Computer music
  • Music, philosophy and aesthetics