O ruído como timbre da materialidade

Roberto Wu

doi:10.33871/vortex.2025.13.10840

Authors

Roberto Wu Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6344-4571

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.33871/vortex.2025.13.10840

Keywords:

Technology, Perception, Tuning, Sound Art, Soundscape

Abstract

This paper explores the inseparability between noise and its material conditions. First, I argue that the perception of noise develops alongside the acquisition of language and music capacities. Next, I examine the impact of modern industrial effects on the soundscape and their influence on the perception of noises. Afterwards, I propose that issues of temperament and musical tuning are inherently tied to acoustic materiality. In this context, noise is primarily regarded as unwanted sound. From the moment material and perceptual conditions allow the integration of noise into music or its incorporation in sound arts, one realizes that noise may reveal a distinct meaning, apart from its traditional subordination to language and music. Considering the plurality of perspectives on noise, I conclude by suggesting that its analysis must necessarily account for both its material and perceptual conditions.

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Author Biography

Roberto Wu, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina

Roberto Wu has been Associate Professor of the Philosophy Program at the Federal University of Santa Catarina since 2009. He has Graduation and Masters in Philosophy by UFPR (2000 and 2002), doctorate in Philosophy by Puc-Rio (2006) and carried out postdoctoral studies at Boston College (2014) and UFMG (2021-22). He was coordinator of the PPGFIL/UFSC (2016-19), President of Brazilian Society of Rhetoric (SBR) (2021-23) and coordinator of the workgroup in Hermeneutic Philosophy ANPOF (2025-26). His investigation focuses on the following themes: hermeneutics, ontology, phenomenology, rhetoric, philosophy of art and philosophy of technology. Website: https://robertowu.ufsc.br

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