Previously, 35-year-old McGregor has used club music or electronically treated sounds; the contrast, he acknowledges, is "kind of extreme.
Segregation based on frequency, timbre and comodulation patterns allows listeners to treat sounds that potentially come from different objects as dynamically separable auditory sources (such as a voice from a single person that emerges out of the background din at a cocktail party, or independent melodic lines associated with different instruments in an orchestra performance).
Mr. Olmi also treats sound innovatively; the opening of "The Fiancés," for example, is daringly played out in near total silence in a dance hall filled with lonely people.
Turner prize nominee Tacita Dean and stalwart visionary artist Bruce Nauman, among others, have switched their attention from the visual and turned to "aesthetically treated sound", making the artists composers in all but name.
Based on a cognitive framework treating complex sounds as 'auditory objects', we designed a novel neuropsychological battery to probe auditory object cognition at early perceptual (sub-object), object representational (apperceptive) and semantic levels.
The idea of treating wastewater sounds creepy to many folks... especially when they conveniently forget that their municipal water system intakes are more than likely downstream from some other towns' treated sewer outflows.
One striking piece of evidence supporting this view comes from studies of illiterate adults who have no observable difficulty with verbal communication yet are grossly impaired at tasks that require treating speech sounds as individual segments (Morais et al. 1986).
Or as Mosley puts it: "You'll arrive at a place where you say no to the cheesecake because you don't want it, not because you are denying yourself a treat". Sounds almost too good to be true.
Treating the sound relationship between the words ice and eyes, for example, one untitled work turns ice cubes into eye sockets.
Les Paul, toying with multitrack tape and speed manipulation, unleashed the possibilities not just of improving music in the mix, but of treating every sound, regardless of its origins, as a variable that could be manipulated.
