A displaced Californian composer writes about music made for the long while & the world around that music. ~ The avant-garde is flexibility of mind. — John Cage ~ ...composition is only a very small thing, taken as a part of music as a whole, and it really shouldn't be separated from music making in general. — Douglas Leedy ~ My God, what has sound got to do with music! — Charles Ives
Wednesday, June 14, 2006
Sound Thinking
Casey O'Callaghan is a philosopher specializing in perception, and perception of sound in particular. He's got some interesting essays online. Reading philosophy is sometimes a bit alien for me, especially when the topic is one in which I have some intimacy. The philosopher's perspective, and I suppose it's necessarily so, is at once reduced and sophisticated. I can recommend O'Callaghan's essay on Hearing Recorded Sounds.
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Thanks for the mention, Daniel. Forthcoming book ms posted here: www.bates.edu/~cocallag/research/SOUNDS.PDF
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