Just beyond listening : essays of sonic encounter / Michael C. Heller.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Heller, Michael C., author.

Series:

California Studies in Music, Sound, and Media Series

California Studies in Music, Sound, and Media Series ; v.5

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sound.

Psychoacoustics.

Music--Acoustics and physics.

Music.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (281 pages)

Edition:

1st edition.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, 2023.

Summary:

Just Beyond Listening asks how we might think about encounters with sound that complicate standard accounts of aurality. In a series of essays, Michael C. Heller considers how sound functions in dialogue with a range of sensory and affective modalities, including physical co-presence, textual interference, and spectral haunting. The text investigates sound that is experienced in other parts of the body, altered by cross-wirings of the senses, weaponized by the military, or mediated and changed by cultural practices and memory. Building on recent scholarship in sound studies and affect theory, Heller questions not only how sound propagates acoustically but how sonic presences temper our total experience of the world around us.

Contents:

Between silence and pain : loudness and the affective disorder

Let's listen to nothing : silence and the anechoic chamber

Silencing and alternative silences

Projecting results : opera supertitles and the people who hated them

Diaries and postcards : archival privilege, empathy, and intimacy

Deploying deadness in Louis Armstrong's house

Tape death : mourning sounds we never heard.

Notes:

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ISBN:

9780520975866

OCLC:

1402815655