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Listening to the Acousmatic

Lewis, Robert Paul
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1316447697

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2011, Master of Fine Arts, Ohio State University, Art.
From 2005 to 2009 I was an associate professor teaching at the Toyama City Institute of Glass Art in Toyama, Japan. Living for four years in a foreign country where I was, even after four years of learning to speak and read Japanese, relatively illiterate, and so unable to read most of the 50,000 or more Kanji characters has transformed store front signage, posters, street signs, magazine ads and articles into pure imagery for me. Being illiterate has sparked my interests in the translation, and the misinterpretation, of words and images, their meanings, and how they are used in various forms of communication. I use this observation as inspiration to combine sculptural components with audio fragments to create reductive listening experiences. Musique concrète is a form of electroacoustic music that utilizes acousmatic sound as a compositional resource. The compositional material is not restricted to the sounds derived from musical instruments or voices, nor to elements traditionally thought of as ‘musica’ (melody, harmony, rhythm, meter, and so on). The work explored in this thesis project explores creating sound-based compositions known as musique concrète . These works are intended to be listened to in an intimate, distraction-free setting, by one person at a time. The works described here involve the mono-track recording of individual sounds with a handheld digital recorder and mixing them into stereo and surround sound compositions using Logic Studio & Max MSP software. These are to be experienced in a variety of interactive sculptures, though listening devices that include hanging stadium speakers, encapsulated blown-glass environments, flat glass panels and surround sound studios.
Richard Harned (Advisor)
Ann Hamilton (Committee Member)
Marc Ainger (Committee Member)
54 p.
Art Education
Acousmatic; Glassblowing; Logic Pro; MaxMSP; Sculpture

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  • Lewis, R. P. (2011). Listening to the Acousmatic [Master's thesis, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1316447697

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Lewis, Robert. Listening to the Acousmatic. 2011. Ohio State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1316447697.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Lewis, Robert. "Listening to the Acousmatic." Master's thesis, Ohio State University, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1316447697

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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