ACOUSTIC SUSTAINABILITY

Musicians Contributing to Real-World Issues
Hearing Loss (risks and education)

Effects of Noise (stress, sleep, task performance, etc)

Listening Skills ("ear cleaning", soundwalks, sound journals, recording)

Composer as Sound Designer (the aesthetic dilemma vs the acoustic community)

Acoustic Ecology as a model for other environmental concerns

Acoustic Sustainability (our ability as a culture to live within a positively functioning soundscape that has long-term viability)


Environment as Music
Can artistic practice be applied to and incorporate environmental concerns and material without compromising its artistic integrity?


Musical relationship to "outer complexity"

Internal Dominant (text) <---------------------> External Dominant (context)
(e.g. musical "inspiration") <-- balanced interplay --> (e.g. sonification)


How can musical qualities be integrated with external referents?

 

PHYSICAL LEVEL

ACOUSTIC COMPOSITION
ELECTROACOUSTIC COMPOSITION

physical space or environment / interaction with same

multi speaker diffusion

temporal context ("occasional" music / ritual)

temporal markers

performers (specific individuals / gender / actor)

"enhanced" performer

audience / listening environment

indeterminate environment / media


SOCIAL LEVEL

draws on the audience's knowledge of social, political, cultural (including media), economic, and environmental contexts evoked by the work through both text and soundscape

 

PSYCHOLOGICAL LEVEL

In particular, disembodied electroacoustic sound allows reference to:

- memory, imagery and emotions

- metaphors and symbols

- narrative, myth and dreams