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PLASTIC SOUND OBJECTS 1
Plastic Sound Objects refer to instruments that, according to
Smetak, have unusual shapesand tones, differentiated from the
common sense. This comes from the need to establish aidentifying
term specific to these creations that encompass their
differentiation as a tool
and a symbolic object. They are instruments designed to be
closer to the musical interactionand, therefore, creations and
processes for improvisational artistic purposes.
Someone's view on an already known instrument (considering the
cultural factor present inthis relation between being and
instrument) suffers the actions of the individual, andespecially
collective, conscious and unconscious, in addition to the
information that theform itself presents. References are as
luggages of knowledge and concepts about theobject, musical
instrument, we have built and elaborated throughout our history. A
piano ,for example, carries in its form and timbre sounding various
symbols and archetypes, such
as virtuosity, elegance, stiffness, technical skill and
countless other images.
An acoustic guitar also carries information, mainly present in
its form. But someone whofaces a guitar will have two possible
antagonistic attitudes. He will either head directly tothe
instrument, moved by intense passion, probably related to what he
saw from the mastersof the instrument, and will be moved by the
pursuit to achieve that model, distancinghimself from his own
musicality; or he will retract for already knowing that universe
andthinking that will never reach the proposed reference model, and
perhaps won't even touchthe instrument. And both consequences will
generate the same result: the distancing of his
musicality.
Reflecting on this, we note that the being who observes a new
form faces the meeting withthe newness. And it is the newness
(knowing that it is relative, because for a being who hasnever seen
a guitar it is also new) that provides to being an openness to
experience withoutthe presence of pre-existing labels. Plastic
sound objects aim, thus, to create a new soundform, in which
musicians and audience find fertile and meaningful symbolic sources
for theexpression of musicality. Something similar happens to the
wind and microtonal guitarsSmetak, objects at the edge of the
instrument category, whose transformation offers a
personal and collective experience completely different from
what we have associated withthat shape and, unlike the previous
case, brings us increasingly closer to our musicality.
This places us directly in a process where the being who creates
has the possibility to enjoyan interpretation, linked to his need
for internal expression. Therefore, the process that
brings the being closer to an identification and disclosure of
aspects of his unconscious,from archetypal or symbolic sources,
also leads to the approximation and identification with
1 Extracted from Andr Pereira Lindenberg. Plsticas Sonoras -
ferramentas musicoteraputicas
na aproximao Msica Sutil : um encontro com o Si-Mesmo [Plastic
Sound Objects musictherapeutic tools on approach to subtile music:
an encounter with the self](Course Conclusion Paper inMusic
Therapy), 2008
