Princípios de fenomenologia para a composição de paisagens sonoras

• Main Authors: André Luiz Gonçalves de Oliveira, Rael Bertarelli Gimenes Toffolo
• Format: Article
• Language: Portuguese
• Published: Associação Nacional de Pesquisa e Pós-Graduação em Música 2008-05-01
• Series: Opus
• Subjects: paisagem sonora; fenomenologia; Merleau-Ponty.
• Online Access: http://www.anppom.com.br/revista/index.php/opus/article/view/238

This paper aims at presenting compositional procedures to soundscapes, based on conceptual thoughts supported by phenomenology. Authors such as Merleau-Ponty, Varela and Maturana have developed a new way of understanding human perception. New in many aspects, this paradigm has not yet been assimilated by some areas related to perception, such as music. We will start with a historical review of the development of the idea of soundscape in the context of contemporary music, presenting a set of core concepts involved in its design procedures. We will summarize then some philosophical ideas about perception, especially in the area of phenomenology. Finally, we will suggest some compositional procedures to soundscapes supported by Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenology and also by the post-pontynian phenomenology of Maturana and Varela. In this sense, we hope to contribute to the development of soundscape composition, bringing the philosophical support of phenomenology in order to understand the central concepts of musical production.