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The Sound-Poetry of the Instability of Reality: The audio reality effect and mimesis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 March 2017

Charles Francis Underriner IV
Charles Francis Underriner IV*
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Music Department, University of North Texas, Denton, Texas, USA
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Email: charles.underriner@unt.edu
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Abstract

This article proposes the audio reality effect as a meaningful translation of Roland Barthes’s literary reality effect to the sonic realm. This refinement of transcontextuality and source recognition is applied to electroacoustic music and soundscape composition using the works and writings of Emmerson, Truax, Wishart, Smalley, Fischman, Young, Norman and Field. Lastly, this study mimetically analyses 2 seconds / b minor / wave by Michael Pisaro and Taku Sugimoto in order to demonstrate the relevance of mimesis and the audio reality effect for understanding current musical practice.

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Organised Sound , Volume 22 , Special Issue 1: Context-based Composition , April 2017 , pp. 20 - 31
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© Cambridge University Press 2017 

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