Murmur

Byrne, BA

Murmur

Byrne, BA

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Issue Date:: 2012

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Field	Value	Language
dc.contributor.author	Byrne, BA
dc.date.accessioned	2013-04-09T08:29:39Z
dc.date.available	2013-04-09T08:29:39Z
dc.date.issued	2012
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/21836
dc.description	University of Technology, Sydney. Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences.	en_US
dc.description.abstract	Murmur is an effort to learn from sound. Here I examine the study of sound from early explanations of sound based on the metaphor of a wave on the surface of a body of water, to research into its existence as a physical phenomenon during the Enlightenment, the invention of phonography and the resultant commodification of sound, the auditory turn and beyond. Establishing a history of sound based on the many voices that comprise the murmur of sound itself, I critique the myths, each dominated by particular ideas, images and technologies, that have shaped the individual characteristics attributed to sound today. I analyse the influence of tropes such as the image of a stone thrown into water as a model for the passage of sound through a medium, the notion that any sound is reducible to individual frequencies and the suggestion that sound recordings can offer fidelity to an original source. I listen to the cacophony. I offer an account of sound that approaches it as a multiplicity that is individuated in a variety of ways. I hear sound as murmur.	en_US
dc.format	Thesis (PhD)	en_US
dc.language.iso	en	en_US
dc.relation	https://opus.lib.uts.edu.au/bitstream/10453/21836/2/02Whole.pdf
dc.rights	The author owns the copyright in this thesis including all reproduction and reuse rights for the work. The work may not be altered without the permission of the copyright owner. Attribution is essential when quoting or paraphrasing from this thesis.
dc.rights	info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.rights	au.edu.uts.lib/ppc
dc.subject	Murmur.	en
dc.subject	Sound.	en
dc.subject	Noise.	en
dc.subject	Listening.	en
dc.subject	Multiplicity.	en
dc.subject	Music.	en
dc.subject	Technology.	en
dc.subject	Aesthetics.	en
dc.title	Murmur	en_US
dc.type	Thesis
utslib.copyright.status	open_access

Abstract:

Murmur is an effort to learn from sound. Here I examine the study of sound from early explanations of sound based on the metaphor of a wave on the surface of a body of water, to research into its existence as a physical phenomenon during the Enlightenment, the invention of phonography and the resultant commodification of sound, the auditory turn and beyond. Establishing a history of sound based on the many voices that comprise the murmur of sound itself, I critique the myths, each dominated by particular ideas, images and technologies, that have shaped the individual characteristics attributed to sound today. I analyse the influence of tropes such as the image of a stone thrown into water as a model for the passage of sound through a medium, the notion that any sound is reducible to individual frequencies and the suggestion that sound recordings can offer fidelity to an original source. I listen to the cacophony. I offer an account of sound that approaches it as a multiplicity that is individuated in a variety of ways. I hear sound as murmur.

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