Professional Theme Sound Analysis

Joseph Beuys "Ja Ja Ja Ne Ne Ne"

1. This sound work has a lot of repetition but also changes in tempo and pitch, creating emphasis on certain parts of the piece. There is a fairly dynamic range with varying amplitude giving off an acoustic space.

2. Form and intention are married in this work. The artist is very deliberate in the way he puts things together and he is attempting to create a very surreal and eerie sound piece. His intention is clear and his form is solid. 

3. This person clearly values the sounds that a human voice box can make and wanted to prove that it has the ability to create any kind of environment it wants to. This person wants to pay attention to the way the voice can be used to create certain emotions. 

George Brecht "Comb Music (Comb Event)"

1. This sound works with pitch and amplitude but otherwise is very simple in form.

2. Form and intention are married in this work. This artist created something very interesting and pleasant to listen to, though it is made merely from a comb. This is the intention, to create something interesting with something very simple. By doing one long stroke of the comb experimenting with tone and pitch, it's a very smooth and interesting sound. 

3. This artist clearly takes value in the idea of creating sound through simple means and taking something from every day life and creating something interesting or beautiful from it. 

Magdalena Abakanowicz "Cough"

1. This person works with tone pitch and amplitude but doesn't do a whole lot of distortion with range and dynamics.

2. This piece doesn't feel as harmonic between form and intention. The intention is clear but the form is not very interesting. It's just of someone coughing without much of a pattern or repetition. There is little manipulation, which isn't necessarily a bad thing, but in this case, it doesn't make for a very interesting form. 

3. This person must take value in the quality of sound without manipulation. They like to send a message across without complicated or distorting the sound in any way. 

Joan Jones "The Anchor Stone"

1. Plays with amplitude, tone, pitch and frequency. There is an interesting ambience and acoustic space as the author tells the story. She combines ambient sounds  and narrative to create a specific feeling and to illustrate the story without pictures.

2. This piece is very harmonic between form and intention. It is an eerie story and this sound gives off an eerie feeling. The form is an illustration which was clearly the intention of the artist. 

3. This person must like telling stories in a way that evokes emotion. By the way a person tells a story and the way in which is sounds and looks by the words we say and the way we say it, a story can be seen in many different ways. This artist likes the idea of manipulation through voice and ambience.