From object to icon, another phenomenology of sound

Abstract

Image and sound are the main guides in the misty fallacies that reality puts before the human being; it is used to signify the randomness, the chaotic of the world. The two main words in the title of this article are the representation of the proposal it presents; the word “object” refers to Pierre Schaeffer's sound object, the word, while “icon” explains the final thesis of the text. The novelty of using the concept of icon on this occasion is to place it in a field in which it has not yet been placed, sound. The article offers an explanation of the sonorous object and proposes at the end the sonorous icon, which takes its conceptualization from concrete music, phenomenology and iconography. In religious art there is an extensive millenary route of the ritual use of the image; the sound, on the other hand, has had a very privileged use in the musical. The term “icon” has been reserved exclusively to the use of contemplative images that represent characters made as objects of veneration, while the sound has not had space in this field; that is why it is pertinent to propose the use of sound in the iconographic symbology.