Open AccessMusica di paesaggi sonori. Enunciazione, risignificazione, comunicazione
Author(s) -
Carlotta Sillano
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
geography notebooks
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2611-7207
pISSN - 2611-7193
DOI - 10.7358/gn-2021-001-sill
Subject(s) - soundscape , immediacy , musical , perception , active listening , meaning (existential) , sound art , sound (geography) , orchestration , multidisciplinary approach , psychology , aesthetics , sociology , communication , acoustics , visual arts , art , epistemology , philosophy , social science , physics , neuroscience , psychotherapist
The paper – rapidly retracing some fundamental stages in the history of sound studies – questions the relationship between soundscape and music language and proposes a reflection on the resulting ontologies of sound. In the traditional conception of soundscape studies, musical language should contribute to a re-orchestration of environmental sound and should promote awareness and active listening of extra-musical sounds. However, every music composition or performance that draws on this kind of acoustic material, inevitably transforms its fruition. Immediacy is in fact impossible and each perception produces a new meaning. The article highlights the value of subjective perception and creative processes in the multidisciplinary discussion about soundscape.