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“耳朵的见证者”来考察20世纪之交声音意识的变化，以期找出声音意识的最初迹象。但我们的研究并不局限于文学中的声音，而是将其与声音和听觉器官的生理学研究相结合，并与19世纪产生电话和留声机的电磁发明和发现的历史相结合。从这样一个新的结合的角度来看，我们可以发现，从19世纪初开始，声音开始脱离现实和指称，最终进入了声音孤立的纯文化，被称为“精神分裂”，在非物质的精神形式的“电话”中达到高潮，通过电磁人工振荡用自然的声音。随着世纪进入20世纪，这种纯粹的分离有了很大的发展，而且是多种多样的。一切都始于19世纪初对声音的定量分析。它将声音的听觉从现实和指称中分离和解放出来，也带来了分离声音的神秘化，把失去现实的事实变成了天使飞向天空的自由而快乐的飞行。20世纪初声音意识的变化导致了今天的电子人造声音的泛滥和与指称和现实的分离。我们的研究试图指出这种批判性声音意识的最初迹象，并澄清其从19世纪初到今天的线性连续性，这符合今天日本对声音的极大兴趣，并相信是领先的。

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.