Sound objects / editors, James A. Steintrager and Rey Chow.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Steintrager, James A., 1965- editor.

Chow, Rey, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sound--Social aspects.

Sound.

Auditory perception.

Sound (Philosophy).

Social aspects.

Physical Description:

viii, 299 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2019.

Summary:

"Is a sound an object, an experience, an event, or a relation? What exactly does the emerging discipline of sound studies study? Sound Objects pursues these questions while exploring how history, culture, and mediation entwine with sound's elusive objectivity. Examining the genealogy and evolution of the concept of the sound object, the commodification of sound, acousmatic listening, nonhuman sounds, and sound and memory, the contributors not only probe conceptual issues that lie in the forefront of contemporary sonic discussions but also underscore auditory experience as fundamental to sound as a critical enterprise. In so doing, they offer exciting considerations of sound within and beyond its role in meaning, communication, and information and an illuminatingly original theoretical overview of the field of sound studies itself" -- From the publisher.

Contents:

Reflections on the sound object and reduced listening / Michel Chion

Pierre Schaeffer and the (recorded) sound source / John Dack

The fluctuating sound object / Brian Kane

Listening with Adorno, again : nonobjective objectivity and the possibility of critique / James A. Steintrager

Spectral objects : on the fetish character of music technologies / Jonathan Sterne

Listening after "acousmaticity" : notes on a transdisciplinary problematic / Rey Chow

The skin of the voice : acousmatic illusions, ventriloquial listening / Pooja Rangan

The acoustic abject : sound and the legal imagination / Veit Erlmann

The alluring objecthood of the heartbeat / Jairo Moreno and Gavin Steingo

On nonhuman sound : sound as relation / Georgina Born

The sound of arche-cinema / John Mowitt

Listening to the sirens / Michael Bull

Entities inertias faint beings : drawing as sounding / David Toop.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-280) and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Sound objects.

ISBN:

9781478001096

1478001097

9781478001454

1478001453

OCLC:

1042078342