Sound at the Edge of Perception: The Aural Minutiae of Sand and Other Worldly Murmurings

ISBN-13: 9789811316128 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 138 str.

Sean Street

Opis

This book is about the tiny sounds of the world, and listening to them, the minute signals that are clues to who and where we are. A very small sound, given the context of its history, becomes hugely significant, and even an imagined sound in a picture becomes almost a voice.

Recenzje

"Sound at the Edge of Perception explores the 'interrelationships between hearing and listening, looking and seeing,' with the hope that 'by awakening the faculty of seeing, we may enhance our ability to listen-and vice versa.'" (Ben Monks, Dymock Poets and Friends, Issue 18, 2019)

Spis treści

1 Introduction: The Bell of Józef Czechowicz ¬– The Importance of Minute Sound Moments.- 2 The Notes of Human Music.- 3 Making the Moment Singable.- 4 Signals from Near and Far Shores – Voices from the Natural World.- 5 Speak My Name – the Ownership of Syllables.- 6 First and Last Sounds – Messages Beyond Language.

O autorze

Seán Street is Emeritus Professor of Radio at Bournemouth University, UK. Previous books include The Poetry of Radio, The Memory of Sound and Sound Poetics. As a poet, he has published nine collections, the most recent being Camera Obscura, and has edited an anthology of poems about radio, entitled Radio Waves.