Sounds in translation : intersections of music, technology and society / edited by Amy Chan & Alistair Noble.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Chan, Amy, editor.

Noble, Alistair, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sound.

Music--Acoustic and physics.

Music.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (184 pages) : illustrations; digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Canberra, ACT, Australia : ANU E Press, [2009]

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Sounds in Translation: Intersections of music, technology and society joins a growing number of publications taking up R. Murray Schafer's challenge to examine and to re-focus attention on the sound dimensions of our human environment. This book takes up his challenge to contemporary audiologists, musicologists and sound artists working within areas of music, cultural studies, media studies and social science to explore the idea of the 'soundscape' and to investigate the acoustic environment that we inhabit. It seeks to raise questions regarding the translative process of sound: 1) what happens to sound during the process of transfer and transformation; and 2) what transpires in the process of sound production/expression/performance. Sounds in Translation was conceived to take advantage of new technology and a development in book publishing, the electronic book. Much of what is written in the book is best illustrated by the sound itself, and in that sense, permits sound to 'speak for itself'.

Contents:

Introduction / Amy Chan

1. 'soundAFFECTs': translation, writing, new media, affect / Hazel Smith

2. Edible audience: what about this gastronomic performance translated as sound art? / Alistair Riddell

3. Translating the musical image: case studies of expert musicians / Freya Bailes

4. Translating the tradition: the many lives of Green Bushes / Jennifer Gall

5. Ancient and modern footprints: music and the mysteries of Lake Mungo / Adam Shoemaker

6. Translating the shigu from the streets to the stage / Amy Chan

7. Domesticating the foreign: singing salvation through translation in the Australian Catholic Chinese community / Nicholas Ng

8. Singing the syllables: translating spelling into music in Tibetan spelling chant / Phil Rose

9. Voice-scapes: transl(oc)ating the performed voice in ethnomusicology / Henry Johnson.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

CC BY-NC-ND

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed October 11, 2016).

Other Format:

Print version:

ISBN:

9781921536557

1921536551

Publisher Number:

10.26530/OAPEN_459542