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Music as Film, Film as Music
Klusák, Martin ; RATAJ, Michal (advisor) ; BARTOŇ, Hanuš (referee)
The core of this work is to search for analogies between different aspects of music composition and film speech in relation to music and film theories and my own compositions and art works.
The initial chapter focuses on the terms visual music and synaesthesia. The second chapter is the principal part of the thesis, and compares different parameters of musical composition and film speech and tries to find inspirational influences between these two. In the third chapter I use the previous research to analyze chosen own works.
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Absolute Pitch: Theoretical Concept and Practical Issues
Bártová, Jitka ; Váňová, Hana (advisor) ; Pecháček, Stanislav (referee)
The thesis aims at complex assessment of absolute pitch both theoretically and practically. It describes the functioning of ear and main issues related to processing of sound and tone height. In addition, it clarifies related terms stemming from musical psychology. Especially, it endeavours to identify causes of absolute pitch and factors which form it. The thesis surveys several phenomena connected with absolute pitch, for example with synesthesia, and with other aspects such as occurrence of absolute pitch among population. It uses not only the Czech but especially English written literature which has not yet been used in such a scope in the Czech musical research.
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Absolute Pitch: Theoretical Concept and Practical Issues
Bártová, Jitka ; Váňová, Hana (advisor) ; Pecháček, Stanislav (referee)
The thesis aims at complex assessment of absolute pitch both theoretically and practically. It describes the functioning of ear and main issues related to processing of sound and tone height. In addition, it clarifies related terms stemming from musical psychology. Especially, it endeavours to identify causes of absolute pitch and factors which form it. The thesis surveys several phenomena connected with absolute pitch, for example with synesthesia, and with other aspects such as occurrence of absolute pitch among population. More practical part of research consists in a questionaire used for verification of hypotheses related to absolute pitch. The thesis uses not only the Czech but especially English written literature which has not yet been used in such a scope in the Czech musical research.
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Differences and similarities of sound-colour synaesthesia (chromaesthesia) and other related perceptual phenomena
Kysilková, Lenka ; Šebesta, Pavel (advisor) ; Chromý, Jan (referee)
Synaesthesia is a perceptual phenomenon found in a small percentage of the population. Stimulation of one perceptual modality triggers a second sensation in other non-stimulated modality. For example hearing sound would induce concurrent percept of colour. This thesis is focused around phenomenological evidence and possible mechanisms underlying synaesthesia. Resemblance of synaesthesia to other similar perceptual phenomena like crossmodal correspondences makes it difficult to define by researchers. I investigate differences and similarities to crossmodal correspondences and also critically review the methodology of experimental studies. Keywords Synaesthesia, crossmodal correspondences, perception
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Lexical-gustatory Synaesthesia in Native Speakers of Czech
Hupáková, Kateřina ; Chromý, Jan (advisor) ; Lehečková, Eva (referee)
This thesis presents the current knowledge about synesthesia as a specific mode of perception where a sensation (i.e. an inducer) induces another sensation which is not actually present (i.e. a concurrent). Special attention is paid to lexical-gustatory synaesthesia, a special type of synesthesia in which taste is the concurrent (word > taste). The empirical part of the thesis is devoted to practical research of lexical-gustatory synaesthesia among Czech native speakers. It describes the methodology of data collection including a questionnaire survey and the selection of respondents. The core and main benefit of the thesis lies in the detailed descriptions of four selected lexical-gustatory synaesthetes with whom we conducted a one-hour interview questioning the nature of their experiences. The information obtained from this research together with realted related the findings from the literature are summarized in the conclusion of this thesis.
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Reflection of Musical Works in European Literary Modernism
Kovaříková, Olga ; Vojvodík, Josef (advisor) ; Hrdlička, Josef (referee)
This paper focuses on intermedial relations between music and literature of European Modernism and early Avant-garde, and monitors the impact of music on literary texts, literature as a whole, and the essentially literary medium - the book. "Musical work", in this case, refers to Richard Wagner's music dramas and theoretical texts that outlined Wagner's artistic-aesthetic concept of Gesamtkunstwerk as a total work of art uniting all the arts. This paper follows the meta-aesthetic line of intimate, synaestheticly oriented intracompositional literary Gesamtkunstwerk in selected literary texts by Charles Baudelaire, Stéphane Mallarmé, Marcel Proust, and in The Blaue Reiter Almanac. It reveals the essence of analogies between music and literature, various manifestations of musicalization, and their significance for literary works and literature as a whole. It additionally emphasizes that the selected texts have also been influenced by already "literarized" music, as well as by esoteric teachings on speculative music, and highlights the gradual disintegration of boundaries between the arts, which led to their abstraction.
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Audio visualizer
Jelínková, Jana ; Schimmel, Jiří (referee) ; Říha, Kamil (advisor)
The aim of this thesis is to create an audio visualizer. That means an object, whose parameters will be changed in real time based on chosen parameters of an audio. The first part of this thesis deals with different kinds of audio visualizers through history till today and also deals with some artistic theories about visualization. The second part deals with the main solution of the visualizer in Pure Data and principles used for audio processing and also describes development of an external for Pure Data.
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Relation between graphemes and colours in native speakers of Czech
Džupová, Olga ; Chromý, Jan (advisor) ; Adam, Robert (referee)
The thesis consists of three parts. In the first part, synaesthesia is described and previous research in grapheme-colour synaesthesia is analyzed. The second part introduces an experiment on Czech synaesthetes which is a replication of an experiment described by Julia Simner et al. in Non-random associations of graphemes to colours in synaesthetic and non-synaesthetic populations. The third part is concerned with an interpretation of acquired results and comparison of these results with data from English speaking synaesthetes.
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Theory of written language
Chromý, Jan ; Mareš, Petr (advisor) ; Kořenský, Jan (referee) ; Křístek, Michal (referee)
v anglickém jazyce The purpose of this thesis is to identify the principles and main aspects of a possible future theory of written language and to critically analyze the existing approaches to this issue. The first chapter outlines the main principles serving as a background for the other parts of the thesis. The second chapter deals with non-empirical approaches to the written language: it introduces selected conceptions of the written language and attempts to critically reflect their theoretical impact. In the third chapter, selected empirical approaches to the written language are considered; it shows how particular empirical researches and empirically based findings could help in the formation of a new theory. The fourth chapter offers a critical review of the conception of the style-forming agents in the Czech and Slovak linguistics. In its second part, possibilities of a more valid and reliable approach to this issue are shown using the example of an experiment on style-forming agents preparedness and unpreparedness. The fifth chapter considers the phenomenon of synaesthesia in the relationship to the written language: the aim is to connect a research area, which would be considered as non-linguistic in the eyes of autonomous linguistics, with paramount linguistic problems.
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Influence of synaesthesia on compositional thinking
Bartošík, Zdeněk ; BARTOŇ, Hanuš (advisor) ; KURZ, Ivan (referee)
This thesis deals with the visual arrangement of a sound event within synaesthetical demonstrations (especially the coloured hearing) as well as with demonstrating their parameters that are related to the topic (although many of them are considered subjective).
The intruduction describes selected demonstrations of synaesthesia. The following chapter deals with coloured hearing and its possible relation to the theory and practice of music composition. The final chapter of this thesis shows particular application of this phenomenon in the process of composition.
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