TIMED SOUND?
[1.0] Timed Sound?
If Music is organized sound (Edgard Varèse’s definition), Sound is organized waveforms, and Noise is unorganized sound, unwanted sound or an alternative practice of making/perceiving unobjective aural/physical stimuli, then Timed Soundis focused on the measurement of sounds, music, and noise.
[1.1] This is not, I hope, another vain attempt at producing or reinventing another “alternative” sonic artform. With the properties of sound being wavelength, period, and frequency, it would be as impossible to separate sound and time from one another as it would be regarding being and time. However, as spacetime (as we understand it thus far) provides temporal limits to comprehension in a somewhat procedural linear fashion, bit by bit, it may perhaps make logical sense to focus on one (time) more than the other (sound) during a given moment or duration, whether duration in its “absolute” measured chronometric sense or closer to the Bergsonian sense.
[1.2] The objective is to listen. and listen more…listen better.
Again, this is not an attempt to create another genre of music, nor another type of music, sound, or noise, but rather the aim is an ongoing practice which allows for more quantities of quality-listening opportunities. It does not need much elaboration -> the fact that the mostly Western contemporary society of “2014 ADHD” may seem to find very few people who listen.
[1.3] While it is extremely exciting that practioners of music, sound, and noise may be steadily increasing, there is little proof or evidence that the number of people listening is increasing. Or rather, the quality of listenings may have declined, due to the increase of the necessity for speed/immediacy in many a fast-paced society. Listening, especially quality-listening, takes time, and there are very few people today in 2014 ADHD who have time to spare.
[1.4] What is Time?
[2.0] Time is many things, and it is nothing. But of all the things we have made and/or found time to be, it is an element embedded within the definition of sound -> waveforms or pulses over a period of time, or, to be brief, waves over time.
[2.1] If this is true or at least of some consistent value, then Time can also be seen as a property of Music:
[2.2] If this is true/somewhat consistent in value, then Time can be defined as:
[2.3] Mathematically speaking, to “divide” Sound by Music would obviously be ridiculous, as it would not be possible to compute this on paper. However, if we decide to entertain the impossibility/possibility/ridiculousness of this pseudo-equation, one may perhaps find that there is some relevance to the experience of all 3 of these elements: Sound, Music, and Time. In other words, it is known that these 3 elements are inter-related. The experience of Time is altered while listening to Sound and/or Music – this we know to be an agreeable norm.
[2.4] If this is so, then could the experience of Music, Sound, and even Noise be altered by an increased awareness of Time?