As redes sociais estão cheias de porcaria e distrações. Mas têm pérolas, ocasionalmente.
Hoje, no Facebook, a Pauline Oliveros perguntou, “If you were a sound, what sound would you be?“. A pergunta é simples, mas genial, especialmente, tendo em conta quem pergunta— compositora e investigadora na área da música e da percepção, responsável por conceitos como Deep Listening e Sonic Awareness— e, por isso, o público potencial. A sequência de respostas é belíssima e é, em si mesmo, uma experiência “sónica”, se usarmos a imaginação. Contribuem músicos notáveis (a primeira resposta é do compositor/criador belga Godfried-Willem Raes, por exemplo) e utilizadores comuns, como eu.
Sem poder criar um link para esta sequência na fonte original (falha do Facebook), deixo aqui uma amostra dessa torrente de sons:
Pauline Oliveros: If you were a sound what sound would you be?
- Godfried-Willem Raes the sound of a failing robot probably…
- David Kresge open E chord w/ analog delay, decaying to infinity / noise.
- Dave Madden (Simultaneous) 1) wet thumb across a 24″ bass drum head 2) metal knitting needle scraped across 20″ ride cymbal.
- Luk Vaes unintentional
- Dan Cohoon a screw driver twirling against electric guitar strings with about 3 kinds of delay on it.
- Eduardo Melendez shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh - Alexandros Georgiadis an electronic combination of textures!
- Tony Gerber The constant sound of the wind blowing through pine trees. It would sooth me for evermore…
- Dave Seidel A 60-cycle hum.
- Baird Hersey “If I was a sound?” We all already are!
- Peter Castine Black noise. Or an extended performance of 4’33”. Very extended;-)
- Franky Fockers silence
- Jentry Hood A waterfall, or windchime
- Jim Jandt 3 squealing piglets being chased by 3 laughing boys on bicycles with playing cards pinned to their wheel spokes and 3 giggling girls on bicycles ringing their bells
- Deborah Slater laughter
- Roman Stolyar The sound produced by fingernail gliding along lowest string of Bosendorfer grand piano
- Jim Jandt or…the sound of a tumbleweed rolling across a prairie(not too loud, really, but non-zero finite) 😉
- Gwen Deely loud heartbeats!
- Jesse Kanner the dull rush and thumpity thump you hear when the subway travels beneath your feet here in NYC.
- Cynthia Bonnet the breeze
- Tom Roe radio static
- Carol Worthey Long ago I wrote a poem in answer to this yet unspoken question. Here is the poem:
I am
the song
the morning dew would sing
if tears
of joy
had voices.
Copyright c 1967 Carol Worthey - Michael Waller I rather be inside the sound.
- Linda Harrington sound of the winter ocean hitting & crashing against the rocks.
- Rick Olson The “snork” at the beginning of Zappa’s “Moggio”
- Brian Routh fart!
- Jo-Anne Green rain on a corrugated iron roof.
- Joseph Pettini My Waterphone.
- Ian Johnson half-speed tuvan throat singing!
- Mark Ledoux the strange wafting dissonances and consonances of mismatched wind chimes.
- Kyungmi Lee quickly disappearing and reappearing rainbow colored sound!
- Mark A Ferdman Wow, there are so many. Something nice and soothing, so a fart is definitely out! LOL Also out, loud barking dogs, screaming kids, and the sound that the leaf movers make.
a waterfall
ocean waves
the sound of a smile
and perhaps some erotic stuff, but I won’t go there 🙂 - Chris Harvey distant wind chimes tuned to a minor seventh on a mildly breezy day
- Gary Sisco Low, dark laughter, alone in the wee hours.
- Jeffrey Ventrella simultaneous alternating dog bark five houses away and mocking bird in tree above
- Eldad Tsabary a pianissimo orchestral cluster
- Justin Lane the warble of an oscillating room fan
- Kazue Asano ringing of a bell from an extremely deep cave
- Erin Donovan gong
- Emily Liolin a chorus of sighs and earthy exhales
- Dianne Hunter ocean waves of withdrawing tide
- Pauline Oliveros Wow – a wonderful collection – what a sound collage it would make.
- Rob Peterson deep darkness in a pine forrest.
- Chris Cones VLF whistlers
- Carlo Altomare The babble of millions of voices from memory that logarhthmically yield a single transforming morphing word in a pulsing meter.
- Sharon Nichols cello
or baby giggle - Carlo Altomare Also it was fun to read the other posts and imagine feeling that sound as a subjective expression of myself… thanks to all!
- Albert Ortega breathing ocelot
- Maria Chavez Depends on the day I guess. Right now I would be a nice warm hum.
- Christopher Phillips the sound of water
- Oliver Polzin silent organs
- João Martins The sound of air rushing through the fully-closed tube of a bass saxophone: first only breathing, then the combination between the low B flat and all the incredible harmonics it produces with occasional very high squeaks, slightly bitting the reed… but mostly breathing.
E estas são apenas as 2 primeiras horas de respostas…
Um verdadeiro trabalho de composição colaborativa.