[PD-ot] how would you describe how something sounds?

[Thomas Grill]

Hi Hans-Christoph,
just two important researchers in the field of sound-morphology:

Pierre Schaeffer - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Schaeffer
    "Solfege de l'objet Sonore" (french) - http://www.ubu.com/sound/sch.html
    theories (french) -
http://www.olats.org/pionniers/pp/schaeffer/theorieSchaeffer.shtml

Denis Smalley - http://www.city.ac.uk/music/denis1.htm

best greetings,
Thomas


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Hans-Christoph Steiner" <hans at eds.org>
To: <pd-ot at iem.at>
Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 2004 9:43 PM
Subject: [PD-ot] how would you describe how something sounds?


>
> This kind of an informal poll.  I want to find out what words
> electronic musicians use to describe how a particular sample sounds.
> In particular, I am interested in words used to describe the quality or
> timbre of the sounds rather than the loudness, pitch, rhythm, harmony,
> etc.  Words that describe how a certain mix sounds would also be
> interesting.
>
> There are particular words that are used by classical musicians and I
> want to compare these to words used by electronic musicians.
>
> .hc
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