MICHAEL NORRIS

SPECIAL TOPIC DISSERTATION


SIGNIFICATION AND TRANSFORMATION:

TOWARD A PERCEPTUAL AND AESTHETICAL DISCOURSE ON THE DIGITAL SOUND PROCESS IN AN ELECTROACOUSTIC DOMAIN

SUBMITTED IN PARTIAL FULFILMENT OF A BMUS(HONS)

WELLINGTON, 1996

 

 

"We may imagine a new personality combing the beach of sonic possibilities, not someone who selects, rejects, classifies and measures the acceptable, but a chemist who can take any pebble and by numerical sorcery, separate its constituents, merge the constituents from two quite different pebbles and, in fact, transform black pebbles into gold pebbles, and vice versa."

Wishart, Audible Design