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Hearing places : sound, place, time and culture / edited by Ros Bandt, Michelle Duffy and Dolly MacKinnon.

Penn Museum Library GN275 .H43 2007 1 v. + CD
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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Bandt, Ros.
Duffy, Michelle
MacKinnon, Dolly
Hazel M. Hussong Fund.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Hearing.
Listening.
Space perception.
Genre:
Sound recordings.
Physical Description:
xv, 435 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm + 1 audio disc (digital : 60 min. ; 4 3/4 in.)
4 3/4 in.
Place of Publication:
Newcastle : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2007.
System Details:
1.4 m/s
digital recording
Summary:
Accompanying CD contains ... "[36] discrete acoustic event[s] designed by the sound artist or framed by the scholar."--P. xv. More detailed track description on p. [xiv]-xv.
Contents:
Subscription to anonymity / Jay Needham
Misplace : dropping eaves on ethics / Brandon LaBelle
Cries and whispers / Kelley Johnson
Between the silence and the screams : recordings made at sites in the last days of Victor Jara / Peter Read and Marivic Wyndham
Locks of hair to untangle : speaking but not being heard / Tony Birch
The great Australian silence / Jane Belfrage
Murmur, whisper : sounds of Australian football / Margaret Trail
Audio restoration at Cathedral in the Desert / Aaron Ximm
Hearing, places : sound in architectural thought and practice / Colin Ripley
A soniferous garden of Rentaroah / Keiko Torigoe
An immersive interactive experience of contemporary Aboriginal dance at the National Museum of Australia / Stephen Barrass
Hearing and imaging place in sound : a program to interrelate the cognitive, cultural and creative / Freya Bailes, Hazel Smith and Roger Dean
Fragile sonic walls / D. Ferrett
Klangort : sound space / Johannes S. Sistermanns
Nostophonics : approaches to grasping everyday sounds from a British perspective / John Levack Drever
Kamus Gali Tulang : a West Timorese digging dictionary / Ruth Hadlow
All of Germany listens to the Führer : radio's acoustic space and imagined listening community in Nazi Germany / Carolyn Birdsall
Unwonted silence : An Gorta Mór and the presence of sound / Paul Carter
Waiting for the tide, tuning in the world : ama no isobue : soundscape of abalone diving women / Kumi Kato
Listening to the wild blue yonder : the challenges of acoustic ecology / Bruce R. Smith
Hearing the English Reformation : Earls Colne, Essex / Dolly MacKinnon
Turning off the witch / Elizabeth J. Kent
Soundscape of an old town of Kyoto and the Gion Festival / Kozo Hiramatsu
My ears were astonished at the sounds of a piano : the soundscape of the colonial New Zealand parlour / Kirstine Moffat
Hearing culture : Hania, audible moments from a complicated acoustic palimpsest / Ros Bandt
The possibilities of music : to learn from and to listen to one another / Michelle Duffy
Meaningfulness of hearing : hearing places from a non-western perspective / Le Tuan Hung
The audible space / Cilia Erens
Playing and hearing sonic environments / Garth Paine
Woollen sound pill as tactile sonic intervention / Ricardo Huisman
Cross-cultural experiment, Melbourne, Australia / Wang Zheng-Ting
The building as instrument / Yolande Harris
Shong shuo (people say) / Iain Mott
Enterprise and encounter : a colonial soundtrack of the Hume Highway / Kiera Lindsey.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Local Notes:
Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Hazel M. Hussong Fund.
ISBN:
1847182550
9781847182555
OCLC:
170954878

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