Sounds and ways of listening
The Encyclopedic Dictionary of Science and Technology Elhuyar differentiates them as follows:
Sound: A phenomenon that involves the propagation of the pressure wave caused by the vibrations of an object in an elastic medium, such as air.
Noise: 2. Fis. Sound mix of random frequencies.
For sound researcher Xabier Erkizia, there are no objective differences between sound and noise, and this inequality also extends to music. The Encyclopedic Dictionary of Science and Technology Elhuyar does not define the term music, since music is not a human activity in the field of science and technology, nor, at least, in the classical sense, although mathematics is a tool to understand and interpret music.
For Erkizia, starting to differentiate, we distinguish between the environment, one and the other, so noise can be music and musical noise. But more than definition he is interested in the analysis and perception of sounds and their relationship with the economy, for example, or the political dimension of sounds and music. With technology, it searches and records sounds: normal and exotic, which are within reach of the human ear, and which are out of reach of the human ear. 1,500 of them have been collected on the website of the Sound Map project. And Erkizia is not only interested in sounds, but also in the audience. The phenomenon of listening, the ways of listening, the other side of the coin.
Obviously, Erkizia's scope of interest is wider than the definitions that the science and technology dictionary offers for sound and noise. It is also evident that, beyond the physical character of the pressure waves, we have approached the artist's interpretation in the main interview of this issue.
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