Acoustic Image is a South African online magazine for music, art and literature.
It is a bilingual publication, featuring both English and Afrikaans writing.
The concept
Acoustic image. To see the word that you hear; to picture a concept. Briefly put, the word ‘acoustic image’ derives from Ferdinand de Saussure’s system of language/structuralist linguistics. According to Saussurean linguistics, meaning consists primarily out of a signifier (or an acoustic image, if you will) and a signified (concept).
"There is, first of all, the compelling correspondence between concept and acoustic image - the one will always call forth the other."*
In a nutshell, for the purposes of Acoustic Image online magazine, the phrase, ‘acoustic image’ connotes language; the word ‘acoustic’ connotes music; and ‘image’, of course, connotes art.
And this is what this project is about: writing about literature, music and art.
*JT Waterman. 1956. The Modern Language Journal, Vol 40, No. 6. pp 307-309.