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Sound : an acoulogical treatise / Michel Chion ; translated and with an introduction by James A. Steintrager.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Chion, Michel, 1947- author.
- Standardized Title:
- Son. English
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Hearing.
- Sound--Recording and reproducing.
- Sound.
- Music--Acoustics and physics.
- Music.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (313 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2015.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Appearing here in English for the first time, Michel Chion's Sound addresses the philosophical questions that inform our encounters with sound, stimulating our thinking about being open to new sounds and to explore the links between language, technology, culture, and hearing.
- Contents:
- Introduction: Closed grooves, open ears / James A. Steintrager
- Preface to the French edition of 2010
- Listening awakes
- The ear
- Sound and time
- Voice, language, and sounds
- Noise and music : a legitimate distinction?
- The sound that you cause : ergo-audition
- Sound and its cause : causal listening and figurative listening
- Sound and what it causes : real and supposed effects
- How technology has changed sound
- The audiovisual couple in film : audio-vision
- Object and non-object : two poles
- Between doing and listening : naming.
- Notes:
- "Originally published as: Le son : traité d'acoulogie: Armand Colin, 2e édition, 2010."
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780822374824
- 082237482X
- OCLC:
- 908374973
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