Текст песни Анатолий Рясов - Введение в философию звука

Lecture delivered at the Moscow College of Philosophy

Obviously, the essence of sound is not limited to problems of sound recording and has a direct bearing on questions of philosophy. At the same time, today's dialogue between philosophers and sound engineers can hardly be called constructive. Perhaps one of the main barriers to this non-meeting is the problem of technology, because sound recording is associated with the need to navigate the immense amount of analog and digital equipment. Are there any recipes for creating sound images? Are there sounds that are not amenable to artificial synthesis? These questions cannot be answered without turning to the technical field.

At the same time, a view through the prism of technology (as well as physics, biology, psychology) does not cover many of the most important questions about sound. Perhaps the main one is: what does it mean to think about sound? Ontology of sound and semiotics of sound, abstractness of music and melodic clichés, audio memory and sound to meaning, noise and silence - these are some of the topics to which this conversation will be devoted.

The lecture is delivered by the writer, musician, performer Anatoly Ryasov. This story is based not so much on his literary and stage activity, but on his many years of experience in the largest recording center in Russia - the Mosfilm music studio.