| Subject: | 2. Re: terminology |
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| From: | "Bernie Krause" bigchirp1 |
| Date: | Fri Mar 27, 2009 4:47 pm ((PDT)) |
A geograph was a map, before "maps", that is. (Hence, geography)
A sonograph is a graphic display of sound. (Here, the language is
precise)
Graphs, from whatever source, primarily expressed a visual context.
I never understood the combination prefix/suffix of phono + graph
since, as Murray
Schafer once wrote, "Je n'ai jamais vu un son." ("I have never seen a
sound.")
So the unlikely expression, "phonography," is even more obscure and
contradictory.
Bernie
On Mar 27, 2009, at 4:25 PM, escalation746 wrote:
> Lou Judson wrote:
>
> > Curiosity about "Phonography" as a term.
>
> I think it's an odd term myself. I always think of "phonograph"
> which makes me think it's something related to either turntablism or
> musique concrete!
>
> -- robin
>
>
>
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