Denis Smalley - Spatiality in acousmatic music

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CIRMMT Distinguished Lectures in the Science and Technology of Music
Denis Smalley, City University, UK
23 January 2014 - Tanna Schulich Hall
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APA video citation:
Smalley, D. (2014, April 29). Spatiality in acousmatic music -
CIRMMT Distinguished Lectures in the Science and Technology of Music. [Video file].
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[@markr6070]

This would have been perfect to use as reference material in Electroacoustic module at uni! Luckily my hard work paid off and I achieved a first for my composition. Thanks to the teachings of Dennis Smalley, Trevor Wishart and Nikos Stavropolous I am still composing and have greater understanding of sound exists outside of the confines of modern music.

[@espielle9726]

+Mark Ruddock Have you publicised your composition online anywhere? I'm doing an electroacoustic module at uni and would be interested to hear it.

[@blarewolf]

Give this man a beer.

[@aerofart]

In regards to acousmatism, I can say there is some merit to it which became obvious to me as I sat in front of my stereo sound system which at the time was balanced slightly left in my mind. I wasn't sure the cause of this imbalance, probably room acoustics that needed tending to. The interesting part about it is that when I watched video content on my laptop whose audio played through that system, the balance no longer seemed to be an issue. I believe my eyes were psychoacoustically balancing the sound due to the video - my visual senses took center stage, or art least played a directorial part in steering my hearing. I can see how there might be a hierarchy in the senses where our mind gives a different priority and weight to each sense until the world makes, well, sense again. This reminds me of the experiment where an individual was forced to wear an optical apparatus that made the subject see everything upside down. After a few days, his mind reversed the image back to normal. In fact, our eyes create an upside down image naturally, and our brain flips it - seems to me, our sense and understanding of gravity is given more weight than vision, probably because life has evolved with gravity far earlier than it has with vision. Then again, bats and deep see creatures don't prioritize vision much if at all, so what is their "acousmatic index?"

[@udomatthiasdrums5322]

still love it!!

[@bullazzo1]

27:09

[@bullazzo1]

6:00

[@pannakhannan7729]

Is a text version of this lecture available?

[@CIRMMT]

I'm afraid not.

[@oceanm330]

He wrote a very famous paper in which I'm studying for my Thesis in University called Spectromorphology: Explaining sound shapes. It can be found on google scholar I believe