hi hans-christoph,
well, maybe you should place some sounds online and let people discuss their characteristics and talk about them... and then compare statements about quality, properties, adjectives. describing just theoretically a non existing sound is not so easy.
otoh some people in earlier days (pierre schaeffer?) already tried to categorize sounds. this is a life-time work.
m.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Hans-Christoph Steiner" hans@eds.org To: pd-ot@iem.at Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 2004 9:43 PM Subject: [PD-ot] how would you describe how something sounds?
This kind of an informal poll. I want to find out what words electronic musicians use to describe how a particular sample sounds. In particular, I am interested in words used to describe the quality or timbre of the sounds rather than the loudness, pitch, rhythm, harmony, etc. Words that describe how a certain mix sounds would also be interesting.
There are particular words that are used by classical musicians and I want to compare these to words used by electronic musicians.
.hc
"Information wants to be free." -Stewart Brand