ABSTRACT
The most trivial sequence, seemingly, of sonic phenomena may reveal unsuspected patterns, unfamiliar, sometimes delightful modes of sound-behaviour. Equally, as a matter of survival, modern man, living in industrial surroundings, has been forced, on the contrary, to make him deaf to an increasingly vast amount of sounds, thereby reducing the world of sound observed to a narrow code of signals that carry useful information. Primitive man must have been endowed with an acutely discriminating apprehension of his surrounding sound-world, simply as a matter of survival. The experience stimulates with unusual intensity the listening to sound for its own sake, divested of all extraneous associations. True, there are people who complain that electronic sound always reminds them of something else. The actual sound-elements in themselves are less important. As with the pictorial collage they may even be insignificant scraps.
