Just Beyond Listening (eBook)

Essays of Sonic Encounter

Michael C. Heller (Autor)

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2023
280 Seiten
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-97586-6 (ISBN)

Infos

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.

Inhalt

Contents

List of Illustrations 

Introduction 

PART I: LOUDNESS AND SILENCE 
1. Between Silence and Pain: Loudness and the Affective Encounter 
2. Let’s Listen to Nothing: Silence and the Anechoic Chamber 
3. Silencing and Alternative Silences 

PART II: TEXTUAL INTERFERENCE 
4. Projecting Results: Opera Supertitles and the People Who Hated Them 
5. Diaries and Postcards: Archival Privilege, Empathy, and Intimacy 

PART III: DEATH AND DEADNESS 
6. Deploying Deadness in Louis Armstrong’s House 
7. Tape Death: Mourning Sounds We Never Heard 

Acknowledgments 
Notes 
Bibliography 
Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 14.11.2023
• Reihe/Serie: California Studies in Music, Sound, and Media
• Reihe/Serie: California Studies in Music, Sound, and Media
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Klassik / Oper / Musical
• Schlagworte: Affect • Anechoic chamber • audio archives • Cagean • Data • hearing spectrum • Jazz • John Cage • Late twentieth century • listening • loudness effect • military acoustics research • Preservation • quietness • recorded sounds • Silence • Sound History • supertitles • tape archives • Voice
• ISBN-10: 0-520-97586-3 / 0520975863
• ISBN-13: 978-0-520-97586-6 / 9780520975866