PPT Slide
Source - Independent Descriptors
- 1950’s, Pierre Schaeffer
- Mass - amt of energy involved in the production
- Dynamics - how energy changes over time
- Timbre - spectral content
- Melodic profile - movement of perceived pitch
- Mass profile - mass over time
- Grain - how pure or distorted a source is (through natural or processing influences)
- Pace - the progression of sound (natural or mechanical)
- Hoped that each criteria could be assoiciated with a fixed set of properties, thus forming a grid to fit all sounds.
- He was never satisfied - sounds were too idiosyncratic.