Creating Space

2011/07/01 by Jennifer Iverson · 1 citation
Arts and Humanities · Computer Science · #Acoustics #Aesthetics #Art #Art history #Artificial intelligence #Computer science #Diverse Musicological Studies #Epistemology #Music Technology and Sound Studies #Music and Audio Processing #Musical #Parsing #Perception #Philosophy #Physics #Sound (geography) #Space (punctuation) #Symphony #Visual arts

paper · pdf · doi:10.30535/mto.17.2.3

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Abstract

Charles’s Ives’s collages, such as “Putnam’s Camp,” The Fourth of July , and selected movements of the Fourth Symphony , present listeners with extraordinarily complex sound environments. This article uses Albert Bregman’s Auditory Scene Analysis as a source for methodology to analyze how listeners may parse and organize the chaotic surface of a musical collage. Since scene analysis problems in Ives’s collages often mimic real-world environments, Ives creates music that seems “spatial” or “pictorial” as a result. Finally, the article compares and contrasts the perception of space in Ives’s musical collages with their historical parallel in visual art, Cubist collage.

Citations

• Charles Ives: Some Questions of Veracity

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