Sinister resonance : the mediumship of the listener / David Toop.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Toop, David, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Music--Physiological effect.

Music.

Auditory perception.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (391 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York, New York ; London, [England] : Continuum, 2010.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

Sinister Resonance begins with the premise that sound is a haunting, a ghost, a presence whose location is ambiguous and whose existence is transitory. The intangibility of sound is uncanny - a phenomenal presence in the head, at its point of source and all around. The close listener is like a medium who draws out substance from that which is not entirely there. The history of listening must be constructed from the narratives of myth and fiction, 'silent' arts such as painting, the resonance of architecture, auditory artefacts and nature. In such contexts, sound often functions as a metaphor f

Contents:

Cover; Title; Contents; Dedication; Prelude: Distant Music; PART I: Aeriel - Notes Toward a History of Listening; Chapter 1: Drowned by voices; Chapter 2: Each echoing opening; each muffled closure; Chapter 3: Dark senses; Chapter 4: Writhing sigla; Chapter 5: The jagged dog; PART II: Vessels and Volumes; Chapter 6: Act of silence; Chapter 7: Art of silence; Chapter 8: A conversation piece; PART III: Spectral; Chapter 9: Chair creaks, but no one sits there; PART IV: Interior Resonance; Chapter 10: Snow falling on snow (fragments in a history of not-listening); Coda: Distant Music

AcknowledgementsNotes; eCopyright

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (EBC, viewed March 16, 2018).

ISBN:

1-4411-8108-3

1-283-27234-2

9786613272348

1-4411-9493-2

OCLC:

893336640