Plymouth, United Kingdom

Sound Arts

Bachelor's
Language: EnglishStudies in English
Subject area: arts
Qualification: BA
Kind of studies: full-time studies
Bachelor of Arts (BA)
University website: www.plymouthart.ac.uk
Sound
In physics, sound is a vibration that typically propagates as an audible wave of pressure, through a transmission medium such as a gas, liquid or solid.
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Could we not imagine that noise...is itself nothing more than the sum of a multitude of different sounds which are being heard simultaneously?
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Dictionnaire de Musique (1767).
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You know the sound of two hands clapping; tell me, what is the sound of one hand?
Hakuin Ekaku (1686-1769). The phrase is a Kōan, an irrational comment used in Zen Buddhism in order to assist practitioners in reaching enlightenment.
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They say gravity is the centre of attraction ; I rather think that noise is. Nothing so soon assembles the inhabitants of a house as a loud and sudden noise:
Letitia Elizabeth Landon, The Book of Beauty, 1833 (1832), 'The Talisman'.
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