CA 149 Midterm Exam Questions And Answers
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sensory experience and mechanical energy in a medium - ANSWER - unique forms of
understanding
- affords distinctive opportunities for the generation of knowledge certain mindfulness
obtains
- concentrate on auditory experience as a sound of a creek, a string or rock band, etc
John Cage (1912-1992) - ANSWER - composers of the 20th century
- Channel up and put volts and erasers in between the strings and transformed
something that is totally different --> new ways of using instrument to create new
sounds
- 4'33''
Edgar Berez - ANSWER For him music is organized sound
Pauline Oliveros - ANSWER -A composer, performer, and theorist known for the concept
and practice of "deep listening"
-Sonic Awareness
Theremin - ANSWER An early electronic instrument from the 1920's named after its
inventor Leon Theremin.
,two types of antennas - ANSWER 1. tall one that controls pitch and the other one
2.controls the volume
Antennas sound - ANSWER - Disembody
- They have a certain character in them that's very electronic and peal.
Water phone - ANSWER - moving it around it changes the shape of the pan (bottom)
around and produce different sound
- erie well like changing of pitch
soundscape - ANSWER A term that cover all the sound around space.
3 basic sources
- Geophony
- Biophany
- Anthrophony
Geophony - ANSWER E.g. wind in the trees, water in a stream, waves at the ocean shore,
movement of the earth
- Signature voices of the nature world
, Biophany - ANSWER sound that is generated by organisms in a given habitat at one time
and in one place
- Signature voices of the nature world
Anthrophony - ANSWER Humans generate some of it is controlled
- E.g. music or theatre, but most of it is chaotic and incoherent, which we might refer as
noise
Spectrogram - ANSWER a graphic illustration of sound with time from left to right across
the page, and frequency from the bottom of the page to the top [lowest to highest].
Buckminster Fuller - ANSWER when man invented Words and Music He altered the
soundscape and a soundscape altered man. The epigenetic evolution interacting
progressively between humanity and his soundscape has been profound
- We able to communicate through word and music
R. Murray Schafer - ANSWER "The Soundscape" & acoustic ecology
Barry Truax - ANSWER perceptual and cognitive primitives
Taxonomy of sound - ANSWER referential characteristics
- Natural sounds
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sensory experience and mechanical energy in a medium - ANSWER - unique forms of
understanding
- affords distinctive opportunities for the generation of knowledge certain mindfulness
obtains
- concentrate on auditory experience as a sound of a creek, a string or rock band, etc
John Cage (1912-1992) - ANSWER - composers of the 20th century
- Channel up and put volts and erasers in between the strings and transformed
something that is totally different --> new ways of using instrument to create new
sounds
- 4'33''
Edgar Berez - ANSWER For him music is organized sound
Pauline Oliveros - ANSWER -A composer, performer, and theorist known for the concept
and practice of "deep listening"
-Sonic Awareness
Theremin - ANSWER An early electronic instrument from the 1920's named after its
inventor Leon Theremin.
,two types of antennas - ANSWER 1. tall one that controls pitch and the other one
2.controls the volume
Antennas sound - ANSWER - Disembody
- They have a certain character in them that's very electronic and peal.
Water phone - ANSWER - moving it around it changes the shape of the pan (bottom)
around and produce different sound
- erie well like changing of pitch
soundscape - ANSWER A term that cover all the sound around space.
3 basic sources
- Geophony
- Biophany
- Anthrophony
Geophony - ANSWER E.g. wind in the trees, water in a stream, waves at the ocean shore,
movement of the earth
- Signature voices of the nature world
, Biophany - ANSWER sound that is generated by organisms in a given habitat at one time
and in one place
- Signature voices of the nature world
Anthrophony - ANSWER Humans generate some of it is controlled
- E.g. music or theatre, but most of it is chaotic and incoherent, which we might refer as
noise
Spectrogram - ANSWER a graphic illustration of sound with time from left to right across
the page, and frequency from the bottom of the page to the top [lowest to highest].
Buckminster Fuller - ANSWER when man invented Words and Music He altered the
soundscape and a soundscape altered man. The epigenetic evolution interacting
progressively between humanity and his soundscape has been profound
- We able to communicate through word and music
R. Murray Schafer - ANSWER "The Soundscape" & acoustic ecology
Barry Truax - ANSWER perceptual and cognitive primitives
Taxonomy of sound - ANSWER referential characteristics
- Natural sounds
