Monday, 2 November 2015

Sound design1 / Sonnenschein. Three listening mode.

According to Michel Chion's opinion, there are three types of listening modes: reduces, causal, and semantic.  A fourth type of listening is introduced as referential. 

Reduced
Reduced listening refers to the participants quickly realize that in speaking about sounds they shuttle constantly between a sounds' actual content, its source, and its meaning. When we closed our eyes, listening to a sound library effects, seeking only perhaps a low rumble or a high squeal without to know what their sources are.

Causal 
Causal listening , the most common, consist of listening to a sound to be able to gather information about its cause. When the cause is visible, the sound can provide supplementary information about it; for example, the sound produced by an enclosed container when you tap it indicates how full it is. Sound can constitute our principal source of information about it. An unseen cause might be identify by some knowledge or logical prognostication; causal listening can elaborate on this knowledge.

In reality, causal listening is not only the most common but also the most easily influences and deceptive mode of listening.

Semantic
Semantic listening refers to a code or a language to interpret a message. the semantic can combined with causal listening. We hear at once what someone says and how they say it. In a sense, causal listening to a voice is to listening to it semantically as perception of the handwriting of a written text is to reading it.

Referential 
Referential listening consists of being aware of or affected by the context of the sound, linking not only to the source but principally to the emotional and dramatic meanings. It can be the sound coding of a specific film.
















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