Stereophonica: Sound and Space in Science, Technology, and the Arts

ISBN-13: 9780262044783 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 248 str.

Gascia Ouzounian

Spis treści

Acknowledgments ix
List of Illustrations xiii
1 Introduction 1
2 The Rise of the Binaural Listener: Spatial Hearing in the Nineteenth Century 17
3 Powers of Hearing: Acoustic Defense and Technologies of Listening during the First World War 37
4 Sound and Music in Three Dimensions: Spectacular Stereophony at Bell Telephone Laboratories 61
5 Psycho-Acoustics: Sound Control, Emotional Control, and Sonic Warfare 83
6 From a Poetics to a Politics of Space: Spatial Music and Sound Installation Art 105
7 Mapping the Acoustic City: Noise Mapping and Sound Mapping 125
8 Sonic Urbanism in Beirut 151
9 Epilogue 169
Notes 173
References 185
Index 213

O autorze

Gascia Ouzounian is Associate Professor of Music at the University of Oxford.