Artistic and aesthetic concepts of the formation of sound images

Abstract

The purpose of the article is to reveal the specifics of the formation of a sound image in accordance with the artistic and aesthetic concepts of the art of sound recording of the middle of the 20th century, developed by the founder of concrete music P. Schaeffer. Research methodology. Systemic and typological methods were applied (to study the specifics of the sound image and identify its role and significance for the art of sound recording); the method of historicism, which helped to outline the general trends of this issue in the middle of the 20th century; the comparative method (for identifying the peculiarities of sound perception by P. Schaeffer, deepening the understanding of his artistic and aesthetic concepts of the sound image and the specifics of the methods and techniques of sound processing developed by him). Scientific novelty. The specificity of the means of artistic and aesthetic expressiveness of the art of sound recording in the process of forming a sound image is investigated; on the basis of the analysis of the "Treatise on Musical Objects" ("Trait'e des object musicaux"), the artistic and aesthetic concepts of sound, formed by the French composer, the founder of concrete music, Pierre Scheffer, are identified and characterized, and the forms of their creative implementation are analyzed; it is proved that the specificity of the formation of P. Schaeffer's artistic and aesthetic concepts is due to the peculiarities of general cultural processes of the middle of the 20th century. and shows an organic unity with the then theoretical and practical style, artistic, semantic, and aesthetic norms. Conclusions. Artistic and aesthetic concepts of the formation of the sound image of P. Schaeffer played a key role in the history of musical art and the art of recording, in particular, the concept of specific music formed the direction of development of various genres of studio music (experimental electroacoustic music, radio art and "sound poetry"), and the techniques and methods he proposed are widely used in modern sound recording to improve the sound. According to P. Schaeffer's concept, everyday sounds that are not considered musical can be aesthetic, and their artistic and aesthetic expressiveness is realized by means of thoughtful listening. The specificity of the artistic and aesthetic concepts of P. Schaeffer in the context of the formation of a sound image is due to specific technologies that contribute to the full formation of the acoustic space (both real and virtual), the expansion and enrichment of the sound texture by means of regulating temporal, spatial and frequency parameters.