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Riddoch, M. 2012, September 9–14. On the non-cochlearity of the sounds themselves. Paper presented at International Computer Music Conference, Ljubljana. Added by: Mark Grimshaw-Aagaard (11/6/13, 7:37 PM) Last edited by: Mark Grimshaw-Aagaard (9/23/20, 9:36 PM) |
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| Resource type: Proceedings Article Published BibTeX citation key: Riddoch2012 Email resource to friend View all bibliographic details  |
Categories: Embodied Cognition, Typologies/Taxonomies Keywords: Aural Imagery, Cochlea, Definition of sound, Imagination, Perception, Synaesthesia Creators: Riddoch Publisher: IRZU (Ljubljana) Collection: International Computer Music Conference |
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"What is non-cochlear sound? This open question is followed by way of an initial explication of the psychophysiology of audition. Non-cochlearity in sound is posited firstly in terms of synaesthesia and the skin and body cavity reception of infrasonic and low frequency sound waves. The auditory imagination is a further example that can produce a perception of sound without any direct acoustic stimulation of either the ear or skin and body. However, one’s imagination still retains a relation to the sounds of the world we live in. From a phenomenological perspective this worldly relation is a fundamental characteristic of sound as something that is heard. On this basis the causality associated with empirical accounts of auditory perception as a product of biological processes are contrasted with an interrogation of sound qua sound. It is posited that the sounds themselves are non-cochlear in the sense of being non-physical phenomena disclosed in the lived experience of hearkening to the meaningful sounds one hears in the world."
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p. 11
"This sensitivity is exhibited even in newborns indicating that an attunement to organized sound is an evolutionary adaptation in the human species."
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p. 11
Cochlear sound is "the perceived sound associated with the kinetic energy vibrations within the cochlea that produce electrochemical signals in the brain."
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p. 12
"non-cochlear sounds are perceived sounds associated with the excitation of the auditory cortex in the human brain by means other than cochlear vibrations transmitted through the hair cells to the auditory nerve."
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p. 13
"Sounds, whether associated with cochlear vibrations or not, are always in the first instance meaningful sounds."
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p. 14
Riddoch provides a fourth definition of sounds "as first and foremost meaningful, worldly phenomena."
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p. 14
"The fact that the sounds we hearken to are already meaningful would indicate that the conceptual in sound is not merely an afterthought, an artistic abstraction, or a subjective, psychological construction. The meaningfulness of what we hear is a fundamental aspect of the sounds themselves as we encounter them in the first instance."
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p. 14
"I would like to propose that there is therefore no such thing as a cochlear sound in any demonstrable empirical sense, there are only in the first instance the sounds themselves we hear and hearken to. By simple inference all sound, as something heard in the world, is therefore non-cochlear (or more precisely a nonphysical phenomenon)."
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pp. 12–13
Riddoch proposes three types of non-cochlear sound:
Glennie, E. (1993). Hearing essay. Retrieved April 28, 2014, from https://www.evelyn.co.uk/hearing-essay/
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