Article ID: CBB001320385

Mineral Sound or Missing Fundamental: Cultural History as Signal Analysis (2013)

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The cultural and the scientific history of the bell sound are linked together, and thereby the methodological premises are created to analyze cultural phenomena in terms of signal analysis. Because of the strange phenomenon that the tone after which a bell is named, the so-called strike note, cannot be found within the spectrum of the bell, the sound of a church bell can be described as the deconstruction of Western acoustic culture. In its sound the secondary precedes the primary. The primary---the fundamental tone---is projected first of all by the secondary, its harmonics. This article, which introduces (to a modest extent) media-theoretical and Lacanian terminology into the history of science discourse, argues that bells represent and signal a state of emergency in the symbolic order because they are this state of emergency in the acoustical real.

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Description A “media-theoretical and Lacanian analysis” of the cultural and the scientific history of the bell sound. (from the abstract)


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Authors & Contributors
Bellissima, Fabio
Wood, Kirsten E.
Wagner, Roy
Vanhaelen, Maude
Silvestrini, Maria Teresa
Restle, Conny
Concepts
Music
Harmony (music theory)
Music theory
Mathematics
Science and music
Musical instruments
Time Periods
Medieval
Renaissance
Early modern
Ancient
19th century
Modern
Places
United States
Greece
Europe
Germany
France
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