The sonoristic triangle, or, what Claude LéviStrauss would have said about sound culture if he had not talked about cooking instead

Abstract

The aim of this article is cultural analysis of modern and postmodern sound culture, based on a structuralist description of the differences between acoustic (traditional), electroacoustic (modern) and electronic (postmodern) sound. The analytical model applied in this study is the so-called "culinary triangle" proposed by Claude Lévi-Strauss and modified here to a "sonoristic triangle" which describes the transition of culture from modernity to postmodernity.