The Correspondence of Sound by Today's Electronic Appliances with Mystification by and of Sound at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century

本研究试图以文学作品作为“听觉的见证者”来考察20世纪之交声音意识的变化，以寻找其最初的迹象，但我们的研究并不局限于文学中的声音，但联合收割机与19世纪世纪对声音和听觉器官的生理学研究以及电磁学发明和发现的历史相结合从这样一个新的结合角度出发，我们可以发现，声音在世纪初开始脱离现实和所指，最终发展到了声音孤立的纯文化，即“分裂音”，并以电磁人工振荡的“电话”与自然声音的非物质精神形式达到高潮。这种纯粹的分离在世纪进入20世纪后有了很大的发展，而且发展的形式多样。一切都是从19世纪初的声音定量分析开始的。它把声音的听觉从现实和所指中分离和解放出来，也带来了分离声音的神秘化，把现实的失落变成了天使飞向天堂般的自由快乐的飞翔，电子人工声音的泛滥和今天所指与现实的分离，是世纪初声音意识的变化的结果。我们的研究试图指出这种批判性声音意识的最初迹象，并澄清它从19世纪世纪开始到今天的线性连续性，这与日本今天对声音的巨大兴趣相对应，我们相信，这是领先于它的。

This study attempts to examine the change of consciousness of sound by considering literary works as "witnesses of ears" at the turn of the 20th century for the purpose of finding out its first indications.However, we don't confine our study to sound in literature, but combine it both with the physiological studies on sound and auditory organ and with the history of electromagnetic inventions and discoveries in the 19th century that brought telephone and gramophone into being.From such a new combined point of view, we can find out that sound started to separate from reality and referent at the beginning of the 19th century and that it finally came to the pure culture of the isolation of sound, called "Schizophonia", reaching its climax in the unphysical spiritual form of "telephone" with natural voices by electromagnetic artificial oscillations. Such pure separation develops greatly and variously as the century turns into the 20th centuryEverything starts with quantitative analysis of sound at the beginning of the 19th century. It separates and liberates the hearing of sound from reality and referent, which also brings about a mystification of separated sound, and turns the fact of the lost of reality into a free and joyful flying like angel's flight to the heaven.The flood of electronic artificial sound and separation from referent and reality of today results from the change of consciousness of sound at the beginning of the 20th century. Our study which tries to point out the first indications of such critical sound consciousness and clear up its linear continuity from the beginning of the19th century through today corresponds to today's great interest in sound in Japan and is, we believe, ahead of it.