ABSTRACT
This chapter provides some flavour of the countless ramifications this connection has for sonic art. Such contextual implications are focused and/or clarified in the communicative interaction of utterances. Translating from the various studies that have been done, the author can discover a wide range of pre-semantic messages. A particular aspect of social interaction is, in fact, the failure or non-existence of communication. a sense of non-communicating co-existence can be enhanced in the virtual space of loudspeakers by the use of location cues and other devices to suggest the co-existence of two separate ‘worlds’. A similar comment can be made about some of the one-to-one communications between individuals of equal status. Renaissance imitative vocal polyphony, for example, presents a particular archetype of the relationship between the individual and the group in the way in which the similar, but different, vocal lines are harmonically co-ordinated.
