The Sound Monad: A Philosophical Perspective on Sound Design

This article aims at sketching a philosophical theory of sound based on the perspective of sound designers: unique agents blurring the boundaries between engineering, music, acoustics and sound-based art. After having introduced the general framing in Section 1, focusing on a short history of the th...

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Autor principal:	Zingaro Vincenzo
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Publicado:	De Gruyter 2021
Materias:	aesthetics art sound design monad entelechies contemporary digital sampling synthesis Philosophy (General) B1-5802
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:7701780d60304aae9c90bce0c88394c22021-12-05T14:11:00ZThe Sound Monad: A Philosophical Perspective on Sound Design2543-887510.1515/opphil-2020-0169https://doaj.org/article/7701780d60304aae9c90bce0c88394c22021-09-01T00:00:00Zhttps://doi.org/10.1515/opphil-2020-0169https://doaj.org/toc/2543-8875This article aims at sketching a philosophical theory of sound based on the perspective of sound designers: unique agents blurring the boundaries between engineering, music, acoustics and sound-based art. After having introduced the general framing in Section 1, focusing on a short history of the theory and practice of sound design, in Section 2 we propose a reading of sound as monad. We derive such intuition from the technology of digital sampling of audio signals, based on the decomposition of complex sound waves in a number of elementary sinusoidal waves. Thus, in Section 3, we attempt at grounding the resulting “sound-atom” on Leibniz’s notion of monad, intended both as a “simple substance without parts” and as a “nucleus of forces in statu possibilitatis.” The insight is resumed and further discussed in Section 4, where we draw our conclusions by demonstrating the fitness of such framing with regards to the standpoint of sound design, while accounting for the work of sound artists Carsten Nicolai and Ryoji Ikeda.Zingaro VincenzoDe GruyterarticleaestheticsartsounddesignmonadentelechiescontemporarydigitalsamplingsynthesisPhilosophy (General)B1-5802ENOpen Philosophy, Vol 4, Iss 1, Pp 162-178 (2021)
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description	This article aims at sketching a philosophical theory of sound based on the perspective of sound designers: unique agents blurring the boundaries between engineering, music, acoustics and sound-based art. After having introduced the general framing in Section 1, focusing on a short history of the theory and practice of sound design, in Section 2 we propose a reading of sound as monad. We derive such intuition from the technology of digital sampling of audio signals, based on the decomposition of complex sound waves in a number of elementary sinusoidal waves. Thus, in Section 3, we attempt at grounding the resulting “sound-atom” on Leibniz’s notion of monad, intended both as a “simple substance without parts” and as a “nucleus of forces in statu possibilitatis.” The insight is resumed and further discussed in Section 4, where we draw our conclusions by demonstrating the fitness of such framing with regards to the standpoint of sound design, while accounting for the work of sound artists Carsten Nicolai and Ryoji Ikeda.
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The Sound Monad: A Philosophical Perspective on Sound Design

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