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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

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the self, going through the creation and construction of an instrument in a new way, a newtimbre, a Plastic Sound Object.