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[perception] SOUND vs IMAGES

Date1998-02-21 18:32
FromDavid Schuyeteneer
Subject[perception] SOUND vs IMAGES
Having a chillout afternoon from the technoparty last night, my mind
started wandering on different
thoughts....All of a sudden I came across the question what the absolute,
essential difference is
between sonic perceptions and visual perceptions...

I landed on this because I was thinking about my last visit to the Louvre
museum in Paris last summer....
I was contemplating paintings there, and I remember that the huge
dimensions (like 8x6 meters ! )
of some canvases were something that is rarely experienced in music :  the
simultaneousity of a 
visual surface....some primitive results of my chaotic mind :

    VISUAL                          SONIC
   --------------                       -------------

   - simultane      TIME         - serial


   - static           SPACE      - dynamic
 


David.