Sonic possible worlds : hearing the continuum of sound / Salomé Voegelin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Voegelin, Salomé, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Music--Philosophy and aesthetics.

Music.

Sound (Philosophy).

Sound in art.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (217 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York, New York ; London, [England] : Bloomsbury, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Inspired by its use in literary theory, film criticism and the discourse of game design, Salomé Voegelin adapts and develops ""possible world theory"" in relation to sound. David K Lewis' Possible World is juxtaposed with Maurice Merleau-Ponty's life-world, to produce a meeting of the semantic and the phenomenological at the place of listening. The central tenet of Sonic Possible Worlds is that at present traditional musical compositions and contemporary sonic outputs are approached and investigated through separate and distinct critical languages and histories. As a consequence, no continuous

Contents:

Cover; HalfTitle; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; My room; CHAPTER ONE The landscape as sonic possible world; Fallen leaves; Listening to the possibility of the landscape; The possible time and space of sound: Palm houses and ghost trains; Sonic environment as possible timespace world; The Exhibition Road tunnel; An affective geography of possible worlds, generating the sonic environment; Reciprocating the affect: Listening to a sonic possible life-world; The possibilities of the acousmatic landscape; Conclusion: Phenomenological possibilism

CHAPTER TWO Into the world of the work: The possibility of sound artKolumba; The sound artwork as environment: Cells and murmurs; Listening across works: Aesthetic accessibility; Sonic centering, decentering, and recentering; Sound words; The babyphone; Sonic representation, reference, and truth; An ethical center of listening; Performing the shape of things themselves; Conclusion: Consequences of a contingent sonic truth; CHAPTER THREE Sonic materialism: The sound of stones; Communion; Conceptual sound; The sonic thing; Airplanes landing

The sound of stones: The material of histories and geographiesSonic crossing: Intertwining without fissure; Crossing geography: Crossing identity; The magnitude and might of sound; Conclusion: There is no sonic sublime; CHAPTER FOUR Hearing the continuum of sound; The golf club; Organized, disorganized, and reorganized sound; Vertical music; Musical worlds; Musical geography; A joint critical framework; Conclusion: the un-sound and the unheard; CHAPTER FIVE Listening to the inaudible: The sound of unicorns; Walking along the Seven Sisters Road; The sound of unicorns

But what about the sound of the unicorn, what is its name?Inaudible soundscapes; The sound of impossible things; The aesthetic inaudible; The politics of possible-impossible-inaudible-things; Sonic horizons; Notes; Bibliography; List of works; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-62356-704-1

1-62356-800-5

1-62356-695-9