SOUND n. A mechanical wave that is an oscillation of pressure transmitted through a solid, liquid, or gas, composed of frequencies within the range of hearing.

Analyzing sound as a transient experience over time

Birdsong SLOWDOWN like a magnifying glass to

the Wing

of a Butter Fly

You may find a work of art

Immeasurable  

Measurable  

Pitch Volume Loudness

TIMBRE

TIMBRE

Timbre has been called "the psychoacoustician's multidimensional waste-basket category for everything that cannot be labeled pitch or loudness.”

- McAdams and Bregman 1979  

airy, ambient, babbly, bangy, barky, blowy, boomy, bouncy, brassy, breathy, bright, buzzy, colorful, cackling, chattering, clacky, clanky, clappy, clattery, clear, clinky, cool, crashy, creaky, corrupt, dark, dinny, dry, echoey, ethereal, faint, flat, focused, golden, harsh, heavy, hummy, jabbery, jangle, light, mellow, metall ic, moony, murmuring, muted, nasa l , no i sy , note , pattering, piercing, pink noise, putting, pure, racket, raspy, rattling, raucous, reedy, resonant, reverberation, ringing, roaring, rounded, rumbly, saturated, shouty, shrill, strained, shrieky, singing, slamming, smashing, smooth, snorting, softness, splashy, sqawking, static, strident, strained, tenor, tinny, thin, tone color, tooty, thudding, thumping, thundering, twangy, unfocused, vibrato, war m, wet , wh inny, wh iny , whispery, white noise

 

 

 

 

Factors of SOUND DNA

•  Pitch, Volume •  Source (Human

vs. non-human)

•  Space •  Material •  Clear/Pure •  Noise/corruption/

quasi-noise (dissonance

•  Repetition/Mantra

GENES

ENVIRONMENT

N E V E R underes t imate the power of the spoken w o r d t o c o n v e y creative visions

H O W E V E R speech is a sound. and as a pure sound, it can be treated as such. Consideration of all other factors of Sound DNA is fundamental.

SPACE

MATERIAL

PURE CLEAN SOUND

PURE CLEAN SOUND

PURE CLEAN SOUND

PURE CLEAN SOUND

PURE CLEAN SOUND

NOISE

n. Noise is a term often used to refer to an unwanted sound. In science and engineering, noise is an undesirable component that obscures a wanted signal.

   

DISSONANCE (Quasi Noise)

DISSONANCE/CADENCE =

CONFLICT/RESOLUTION

MANTRA   MANTRA   MANTRA  

MANTRA   MANTRA   MANTRA  

MANTRA  

MANTRA  

MANTRA   MANTRA   MANTRA   MANTRA