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The Listener in François Bayle’s Works: A resonant subject in a living space

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 November 2015

Edith Alonso
Edith Alonso*
Affiliation:
International University of la Rioja, Gran Vía del Rey Juan Carlos I, 41, 26002 Logroño, La Rioja, Spain
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Email: edithalonso@yahoo.com
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Abstract

Bayle’s aesthetic radicalism is based on a conception of a living space in which there is not an opposition of an inner space to an outer space. This idea will be discussed by looking at the morphology creation, temporal evolution and sound spatiality on François Bayle’s works. Sound events as ‘images-of-sounds’ are characterised by a philosophy of dynamic production and energy transformation which creates a space in movement. However, the organisation of time structure in Bayle’s works can be divided into three categories (discrete time, time based on independent moments and circular time) corresponding to three periods of his creative life. We can conclude that this organisation led him to realise how important the active behaviour of the listener is for the construction of space. As a result, the spatial experience does not create a constructed space but rather a subjective one in which the listener is a resonant subject with the space surrounding him.

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Organised Sound , Volume 20 , Issue 3: Aesthetic Radicalism, Future and Past , December 2015 , pp. 308 - 315
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© Cambridge University Press 2015 

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