Soinua, zarata, musika: argi al daude mugak?

Abstract

Does your neighbour’s motorbike disturb you at meal? Are you not able to sleep properly because of the tavern below your flat? when you have lunch at a res-taurant, are you not able to listen to your partner, although he/she seats beside you? we would all admit that this is because of noise. Nevertheless, limits of noise are not that clear: what is music for you may be just noise for your grandma: "For God’s sake, turn off this radio, please! It only causes me a headache!"— you might have heard at your eighteens. As we will see, sometimes it is not easy to delimit the boundaries among sound, noise and music.; Zure bizilagun gaztearen motorrak ez al zaitu lasai jaten uzten? Etxe azpiko tabernarekin ezin al duzu lo egin? Ez al duzu zure bikotekidearen solasa ja-tetxe batean ulertzen, ondoan badago ere? Zaratarengatik dela ados egongo ginateke guztiok. Halere, zarataren mugak ez dira horren argiak: zuri musika iruditzen zaizuna, zure amonarentzat zarata hutsa izan daiteke. —"Itzal ezak/ezan irrati hori, arraio! Buruko mina besterik ez zidak/zidan ematen zarata horrek!"— entzungo zenuen noizbait, beharbada, gaztetan. Ikusiko dugun bezala, batzuetan ez da erraza soinua, zarata eta musikaren arteko mugak ondo zehaztea.