If you were to sit in a room and not speak, and no one else is speaking- there is silence, until you listen carefully and realise that there are plenty of sounds that are being made. You may be sitting in the library and there may be a bird chirping outside or a dog barking. The click of a pen, the tapping of the keyboard, the turning pages of a book. Someone sneezing, another coughing, the squeaking of a chair, the sound of the heating or air conditioner. Either way, even when you are quiet, there is noise.
Noise is one of the aspects of sound; it is the unwanted or undesirable, coming from the term of 'nausea.' However, it is interesting to know that over the past century, noise has become the focus in many musical genres. For example, composer John Cage is interested in the idea of noise overlapping other noises and wanting to highlight the concept that music listening also involves the other sounds that are present in the place you are listening from (like the additional sounds in the room around you) and that no matter how many times a piece is played or performed, the experience is different each time. He demonstrates this in his radically famous piece '4:33'
The other aspects of sound is hearing (our auditory perception- sound travels in waves and is very much a physical thing, so hearing is how we perceive the waves) and listening, which is focussing in on a particular sound, as well as reverberation, which is the bouncing of sound. This last one in particular is crucial for performance spaces, in terms of acoustic and whether a certain style of sound is suited in a particular context. If we were to look at music and the different genres, the space in which music is played impacts a great deal with how a listener experiences the performance. David Byrne elaborates on the concept of how mankind has leant to "adapt and change what we do to fit the context"over time in terms of music...
Reference:
John Cage's 4:33 retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTEFKFiXSx4
Ted Talks, uploaded on 11th June 2010, David Byrne: How architecture helped music evolve, retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Se8kcnU-uZw
Noise is one of the aspects of sound; it is the unwanted or undesirable, coming from the term of 'nausea.' However, it is interesting to know that over the past century, noise has become the focus in many musical genres. For example, composer John Cage is interested in the idea of noise overlapping other noises and wanting to highlight the concept that music listening also involves the other sounds that are present in the place you are listening from (like the additional sounds in the room around you) and that no matter how many times a piece is played or performed, the experience is different each time. He demonstrates this in his radically famous piece '4:33'
The other aspects of sound is hearing (our auditory perception- sound travels in waves and is very much a physical thing, so hearing is how we perceive the waves) and listening, which is focussing in on a particular sound, as well as reverberation, which is the bouncing of sound. This last one in particular is crucial for performance spaces, in terms of acoustic and whether a certain style of sound is suited in a particular context. If we were to look at music and the different genres, the space in which music is played impacts a great deal with how a listener experiences the performance. David Byrne elaborates on the concept of how mankind has leant to "adapt and change what we do to fit the context"over time in terms of music...
Reference:
John Cage's 4:33 retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTEFKFiXSx4
Ted Talks, uploaded on 11th June 2010, David Byrne: How architecture helped music evolve, retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Se8kcnU-uZw
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