By the 1970s, noise had a more negative connotation: That decade introduced the idea of "noise pollution," depicting sound as an environmental hazard.
The design is a representation of the Doppler Effect, manifested in undulating grassy mounds that depict sound waves.
In the original, Lichtenstein depicted sound with motion lines that present a pronounced movement of the object.
The opera begins with the orchestra depicting the sounds of sleeping.
The visual aspect of music, the album cover, is important, because it is a picture of the music, depicting the sound.
"Treme," which begins on Sunday, takes place three months after Hurricane Katrina, and it is a tribute to the "real" New Orleans by filmmakers who have become connoisseurs of the city, depicting its sound and ravaged looks with rapt reverence and attention to detail.
(Readers of a certain age will also appreciate the interior 3-D art installation depicting the sound wave of the song "Louie, Louie" made famous in the 1960s by Portland locals The Kingsmen).
This 10-minute, multisectioned piece depicts the sounds of a military battle, complete with fanfares, drumrolls and galloping cavalry.
In the single-movement "Exaltation of Larks" (commissioned in 2005 for the Tokyo String Quartet), she said she wanted to depict the sounds of thousands of birds.
A second fundamental distinction is that between representational notations, which depict the sound of the music leaving the player to produce that sound as he wishes and tablatures, which instruct a player as to the technical means of producing a sound.
The study shows that sounds depicting higher intensity, pitch, transient effect, and time-varying character are found to be more annoying.
