acousmatic

My close friend Jai Uttal sent me this:

Pythagoras invented the word acousmatic as a definition of sound hidden
from its visual source. Much later, in 1955, French theorist Jerome Peignot

used it to describe musique concrète's method of the separation of sound

from reference. It was Pierre Schaeffer, the father of the French musique

concrete school who developed the term further. He emphasized that a visual

link between the sound source and its origin was not necessary and if

anything, undesired (for a nice article on the subject go to

http://cec.concordia.ca/econtact/Quebec/McFarlane.html).

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Hanuman Zhang, musical mad scientist: "Nah, I don't wanna take over the
world, just the sound spectrum to make it my home."

"For twenty-five centuries, Western knowledge has tried to look upon the
world. It has failed to understand that the world is not for the beholding. It
is for the hearing. It is not legible, but audible." - Jacques Attali,
_Noise: The Political Economy of Music_