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...Acousmatic Complications ...

... sound objects acousmatic listening phenomenology constructivism ...

... concrète: Pierre Schaeffer. It shows how Chion has taken up the concepts of “acousmatic listening” (listening without being able to see a sound’s source) and the “sound object” (an objectification of sound enabled by recording media) and has simultaneously extended and challenged them. Schaeffer was guided...

... of the sign (Saussure’s “acoustic image”) and the role of what Michel Chion has called “acousmatic” sounds in the cinema. Throughout, the goal is to establish how the epistemological value of the image (not images per se) haunts both semiological and theoretical analysis in the field of sound studies. It thus...

...; telephony, or any transmission of sounds at a distance; systematic acousmatization, or the generalized separation of hearing and seeing; amplification and deamplification, or the various ways that the intensity of sounds is modified; phonofixation, or the recording of existing sounds or production of sounds...

..., there is a tendency to overemphasize cause (causalism). Acousmatic listening can serve to balance or correct this tendency. On the other hand, causal vagueness can help when the goal is to use sounds to figure forth or render images, objects, and affects. This is particularly true of the use of sound in cinema...

... was elected senator at large in 1972 and 1976. Several signal performances of acousmatic blackness punctuated this career: first, the Fortunato Vizcarrondo poem set to music, “Y tu abuela, ónde etá”; second, Fernández’s portrayal of Cuban slave Dolores Santa Cruz in the Cuban operetta Cecilia Valdés and her...

... or for fixation on a medium; telephony, or any transmission of sounds at a distance; systematic acousmatization, or the generalized separation of hearing and seeing; amplification and deamplification, or the various ways that the intensity of sounds is modified; phonofixation, or the recording of existing sounds...

... lead to various distortions in listening. When it comes to analyzing sounds in themselves, there is a tendency to overemphasize cause (causalism). Acousmatic listening can serve to balance or correct this tendency. On the other hand, causal vagueness can help when the goal is to use sounds to figure...