Sonic Possible Worlds: Hearing the Continuum of Sound

ISBN-13: 9781623565091 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 216 str.

Salome Voegelin

Opis

Inspired by its use in literary theory, film criticism and the discourse of game design, Salome 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 and comparative study of the field is possible.

In "Sonic Possible Worlds," Voegelin proposes a new analytical framework that can access and investigate works across genres and times, enabling a comparative engagement where composers such as Henry Purcell and Nadia Boulanger encounter sound art works by Shilpa Gupta and Christina Kubisch and where the soundscape compositions of Chris Watson and Francisco Lopez resound in the visual worlds of Louise Bourgeois."

Recenzje

Voegelin's Sonic Possible Worlds is a rather provocative and challenging endeavor to take this necessary discussion to a high scholarly level without losing the connection with the art works themselves ... It should be compulsory reading for anyone interested in listening and the counterpart or supplement to new materialism, sonic materialism. Additionally, it is one of the few books which deals with both sound art and music, thus contributing not only to the discourse on sound studies but also offering new perspectives for musicologists. Journal of Sonic Studies

Spis treści

AcknowledgmentsIntroductionChapter 1: The Landscape as Sonic Possible WorldChapter 2: Into the World of the Work: The Possibility of Sound ArtChapter 3: Sonic Materialism: the Sound of StonesChapter 4: Hearing the Continuum of SoundChapter 5: Listening to the Inaudible: the Sound of UnicornsNotesBibliographyList of WorksIndex

O autorze

Salomé Voegelin is Professor of Sound at the London College of Communication, UAL, and an artist and writer engaged in listening as a socio-political practice of sound. She is the author of Listening to Noise and Silence (2010), Sonic Possible Worlds (2014) and The Political Possibility of Sound (2018), all by Bloomsbury Academic. Her work and writing deal with sound and the world sound makes: its aesthetic, social and political realities that are hidden by the persuasiveness of a visual point of view.