
Bk. 3, chap. 4; as cited in: Moritz (1914, 240)
System of positive polity (1852)
A collection of quotes on the topic of acoustics, sound, soundness, space.
Bk. 3, chap. 4; as cited in: Moritz (1914, 240)
System of positive polity (1852)
“Music is everything. God himself is nothing more than an acoustic hallucination.”
Tears and Saints (1937)
The way we use these sources is the key in order to define the required musical result. Without neglecting the acoustic conventional instruments, I spend a fair amount of time dealing with the electronic sources of sound. But please do not think computers! Computers are extremely helpful and amazing for a multitude of scientific areas, but for me, when it comes to creation, they are insufficient and slow. Therefore all of my efforts are to stay away from that beast".
2012
Source: 1960s, Counterblast (1969), p. 13
Géza Révész, Introduction to the psychology of music. Courier Corporation, 1954. Abstract
Wonderbook Interview with Thomas Ligotti http://wonderbooknow.com/interviews/thomas-ligotti/
Source: 1980s, Laws of Media: The New Science (with Eric McLuhan) (1988), p. 44
“The Blues is an acoustic tear.”
on his Album "Blues Haor Haganuz"
1952, quoted in Classic Essays on Twentieth-Century Music, ISBN 0028645812
1950s
iTunes interview (released June 2, 2007)
2007, 2008
Source: 1960s, Counterblast (1969), p. 14
Quoted in Classic Essays on Twentieth-Century Music, ISBN 0028645812.
Source: 1980s, Laws of Media: The New Science (with Eric McLuhan) (1988), p. 225
“The telegraph press mosaic is acoustic space as much as an electric circus.”
1970s, Culture Is Our Business (1970)
Variant: Until writing was invented, we lived in acoustic space: boundless, directionless, horizonless, the dark of the mind, the world of emotion, primordial intuition, terror. Speech is a social chart of this bog. (p. 13)
Source: 1960s, Counterblast (1969), p. 13
Source: 1980s, Laws of Media: The New Science (with Eric McLuhan) (1988), p. 113
“Tactility is the space of the interval; acoustic space is spherical and resonant.”
1980s, Laws of Media: The New Science (with Eric McLuhan) (1988)
"Chinese Characters and the Greek Alphabet" in Sino-Platonic Papers, 5 (December 1987)
Source: The Mind and the Brain, 1907, p. 25
Source: 1990s and beyond, The Book of Probes : Marshall McLuhan (2011), p. 70
Quote in The painting of Sounds, Noises and Smells Carrà, in 'Lacerba' vol. 1. no. 17, 1,Florence, 1 September 1913, pp. 186-187
1910's
Source: 1910's, The Art of Noise', 1913, p. 12
Gameplay magazine
“Acoustic space is totally discontinuous, like touch. It is a sphere without centers or margins.”
1970s, Culture Is Our Business (1970)
Source: 1980s, Laws of Media: The New Science (with Eric McLuhan) (1988), p. 40
Source: 1980s, Laws of Media: The New Science (with Eric McLuhan) (1988), p. 34
“Cubism ('multi-locationalism') is one of the painterly forms of acoustic space.”
Source: 1980s, Laws of Media: The New Science (with Eric McLuhan) (1988), p. 55
Source: LSD : My Problem Child (1980), Ch. 1 : How LSD Originated
Context: Slowly I came back from a weird, unfamiliar world to reassuring everyday reality. The horror softened and gave way to a feeling of good fortune and gratitude, the more normal perceptions and thoughts returned, and I became more confident that the danger of insanity was conclusively past.
Now, little by little I could begin to enjoy the unprecedented colors and plays of shapes that persisted behind my closed eyes. Kaleidoscopic, fantastic images surged in on me, alternating, variegated, opening and then closing themselves in circles and spirals, exploding in colored fountains, rearranging and hybridizing themselves in constant flux. It was particularly remarkable how every acoustic perception, such as the sound of a door handle or a passing automobile, became transformed into optical perceptions. Every sound generated a vividly changing image, with its own consistent form and color.
Source: 1910's, The Art of Noise', 1913, p. 6
On her 1980 album Happy Woman Blues in “Lucinda Williams Looks Back on Every Album She’s Ever Made” https://www.spin.com/2016/02/lucinda-williams-ghosts-of-highway-20-car-wheels-on-a-gravel-road-interview/ in Spin (2016 Feb 25)
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The Menace of the Herd (1943)