ABSTRACT (English)

Printmaking and Phonography:
Creative interrelationships between sound and graphic through the symbiosis of etching with phonographic recording media
     
     A noun exists in Spanish; ¬GrabadoÓ or as a verb ÒgrabarÓ, both which can be used in printing making and recording sound. The relationship between sound recording systems and engraving in the graphic arts is based on the principle that they both share the common bond of etching or registering an image or sound to facilitate reproduction. Addressing this idea from a different perspective has extended the boundaries of these two distinct areas; the graphic and the aural, creating a conceptual bridge and symbiotic relationship that can generate an intermediate product.
     
     The objective of this thesis is to discover the relationship that facilitates this symbiosis between sound and graphic production resulting in an interdisciplinary proposal that offers graphic applications to recording media to be considered as ÒSound GraphicsÓ.
     
     The methodology used focuses on two areas or aspects that serve as the basis for a definition of ÒSound Graphics. The first being the study of the interdisciplinary theories of authors including; Basarb Nicolescu, Immanuel Wallerstein, Marcel Boistrot, Jurjo SantomŽ Torres, C.W. Morris and the interpretation of the word ÒgrabadoÓ as viewed by authors such as Gottlob Frege, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Ferdinand de Saussure, Arthur Schopenhauer and Martin Heidegger. The second part attempts to use this information to physically produce and fuse graphic and sound art, thus defining ÒSound GraphicsÓ.
     
     This is an interdisciplinary approach to the little studied relation between ÒGrabadoÓ and recording and the practical experiments in the usage of the technique of drypoint together with digital recording methods. Finally this thesis seeks to demonstrate the different possibilities of linking graphics with sound to create a hybrid known as ÒSound GraphicsÓ.