Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Hearing; listening: as, acousmatic disciples.
- noun A name given to such of the disciples of the Greek philosopher Pythagoras as had not completed their years of probation; hence, a professed hearer; a probationer.
- noun An equivalent form is acoustic.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Referring to a sound that has no visually identifiable cause.
- adjective Referring to
Pythagorean disciples who for years listened to his lectures from behind a curtain, unable to see him. - adjective music Referring to pre-recorded
music that is presented in concert using loudspeakers, e.g. some types of computer music.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Using words like "acousmatic," concrete "and" tape music "to describe themselves, emerging Brooklyn-based band Small Black will show you what that combination means at their Mercury Lounge show, performing alongside recent-Southstreet-Seaport performers Beach Fossils.
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Future installations include Kyle Gann on Minimalism, Tom Lopez on acousmatic music, and Lara Pellegrinelli (aka Dr. LP) on the new jazz.
Majestic 12 Matthew Guerrieri 2008
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Future installations include Kyle Gann on Minimalism, Tom Lopez on acousmatic music, and Lara Pellegrinelli (aka Dr. LP) on the new jazz.
Archive 2008-10-01 Matthew Guerrieri 2008
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Such acousmatic listening involves experiencing sounds in a way that is “detached from the circumstances of their production,” rather than “as having a certain worldly cause” (Hamilton 2007, 58).
Auditory Perception O'Callaghan, Casey 2009
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It is in this way that déacousmatisation [the linkage of an acousmatic voice with a subject] equals subjectivization (Zizek, Looking Awry 127). close window
Notes 2001
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Readers intrigued by Ronell's linkage of technology and schizophrenia in the figure of distant speech (in this essay, acousmatic speech), may be interested to know that researchers at the University of Colorado have recently discovered a receptor in the hypothalamus (in the brain) that is sensitive to the difference between foreground and background noise.
Notes 2001
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Aside from López's singular adherence to thematic and acousmatic purity, the most striking aspect of these recordings is their length.
Brainwashed 2010
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If 'Forest Of Evil' was the push-off, we're deep into the session now, rendering those intermediary hours of the trip when we're untethered from reality and deposited in the moment, an interzone of harrowing drones, acousmatic sampledelics and arcane intentions designed to create a state of psychedelic submission.
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June in Buffalo 2008 will offer an extraordinary opportunity to work with a distinguished, international faculty of composers and researchers, leading experts in algorithmic, interactive, multimedia, acousmatic, and electroacoustic computer music.
unknown title 2009
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Schaeffer coined the term Musique Concrete (also called "acousmatic music") to describe non-narrative music using
MATRIXSYNTH 2009
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