CMNS 259 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Intonarumori, Earworm, Tinnitus
Document Summary
The futurists and noise sounds: intonarumori: noise exhilaration progress, militarism and the machine imaginary, futurists modernist thinkers and noise/machinery signified human progress and potential. What is noise: unwanted sounds, unmusical sound, any loud sound, disturbance in any signalling or communication system, sound is pressure and power the loudest sound in the world would kill you on the spot. Noise is subjective: we hear though differences/contrast, quality, timbre, pitch, periodicity semantic association all determine the qualitative experience noise (determine whether we are hearing a noise or not, hearing is cognitive too (ex: the ear-worm, the pet peeve) Effects of noise: psychological effect of noise: stress, fatigue, anxiety, health effects of noise: sleep disturbance, high blood pressure, tinnitus, hearing loss. Audio portraits for better city (soundscapes: boyle heights where researchers behind la litens made their recording the volume wars between mariachi performers and electronic music blasting from a cell-phone shop reveal tensions in a changing neighborhood.