Sonic Art & Sound Design- P33:Sonic art is a new art form, or rather, forms. As we shall see, it can encompass a wide range of activities, perhaps wider than almost any other art form. It is an unusual case, based upon a medium that has traditionally been regarded as inferior and subservient to other creative or expressive forms. | CONCLUSION THE 1 ORLD OF SO UN D C OM OS ITI ON HA S BE N HAMP ERED B SY 1 BEI NG CA ST I N T HE RO LE OF A POO R RELA1 _O T1 ION T O M OR IÜ 1 T AD T E ITI ON AL U 4 MU WAI IC U I PRA CTICE xKir . Ir N PA R IJ CRITI CULA AI MF T ITI E NG AS S I T T OD HE Y O MU FA IC NA OLO LY GY ICAL OF M AND ESTE RN ART M lm l Q 1 h i 1 S S TR ONG ly OR IEN TE D T O T HE S TUDY OF MUSIC AL TE XTS S CO RES R AT ER TH AN TO A I DISCI PLINE OF AC UTE Al RA L A MA REN ES S IN ITSE _F. SOUN - 1 t D COMI POS ITI ON kh RE QUI RE T HE DEV ELO PMEN T O F bi C OTH OMP ND C New l OSER A IST ENI T NG ini AN ii n L D A C MA GG OU RE C1 ES ES A r Ù P II KILL S FO a m R T HE L A RITIC NLD I DIS W JX CIP LIN E F ND D I N T HE S TUD O THE S ONIC E ERI EN CE ITS ELF Ri ATH NER THA N ITS REPR t ATI ON IN A T EXT T HIS NE M P ARA DIGM IS BEGIN NING TO STR UG GL IN TO EX IST EN E AG AINS T THE I M 1 IC T MMENS E I ri H NER PT TIA O R CE 1UE D M IS OM BOU T MUSI TREVOR CAL S MISHART RU AU CT DIBL URE E DE . SIcr r AFTERWORD Afterword Some time in 1966 my parents went out for the was unusual and meant that I was at home by myself. More significantly it meant that I had access to my father s jealously guarded Deccalian gramophone and could play my new Beatles record at previously undreamed-of volume. Even more exciting was the prospect of copying it on to a newly acquired tape recorder so that I would no longer have to depend upon such opportunities to listen to that dreadful jungle music as he was wont to describe it. I duly pointed my crystal microphone at the Deccalian s loudspeaker made the ritual adjustments with the help of the magic eye on the recorder and in all innocence set the process in motion. Reaching the end I put the needle back to the start of the record while I rewound the tape. By chance I restarted it part way into the recording at almost exactly the point that the record had reached. The two versions of Taxman played together slightly out of sync creating an odd spatial .
